- 20 Local, State, National Agencies jumped in to help with chaos
- 8:58A first call re: gunfire in and out of iHop. 9:05A officials on scene
- 11 Total Victim count. 5 Nat Guard. 6 Civilians.
- Pronounced dead at scene 1 female civilian and 2 guardsmen. Perp sent to hospital.
- Big Gen. William Burks confirmed - Dead - (forgive spelling errors - taking from press conference) -
1- Major Heath Kelly - Reno 35 - father with kids - decorated field artillary offier - Commander of Joint Force Service in Carson City
2- Sgt First Class Christian Riege - Reno 38 -father with kids - Afghanastan from 2009 to 2010 - also in Navy for 2 years
3- Sgt First Class Miranda McElheney - 13 years in Guard, owned small nearby baking company,
4 - Civilian - Florence Gunderson, 67, South Lake Tahoe, husband retired Marine Corps was with her and injured
- Perp was a citizen and history of mental illness that is being investigated.
- No other person involved.
- Cannot conclude military was targeted since equal amount of civilians were shot.
- ATF looking into where Perp got guns
- Survivors all have serious to critical injuries
- No one inside iHop was armed
- Many acts of heroism said to have happened inside restaurant
- Perp made 3 pawn shop transactions in last year
- Prez of iHop says no employees were injured and they brought in counselors to help them thru incident
- Confirmed that Perp used assault rifle and was also carrying a pistol which was not used. Also found other weapon in van
- 4 surrounding businesses were struck by fire including Casino Fandango across street
- Autopsy reports will give more clues as to what happened
- ATF looking into where Perp got guns
I hope we don't have to just take their word for it...
- Male Owner of BBQ placed called and you can hear gunfire in background telling dispatch that shooter when inside iHop then came outside and was shooting....started yelling at woman to get out of way and also for people to get inside. (I believe he is one of the people that went inside iHop to help and came upon Mr. Gunderson who was injured and looked over to see his wife dead and around to see peoples heads split open)
- Lady caller said someone shooting at iHop....Dispatch asks....Oh do you know who it is?