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Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) - Two years after a gunman killed 13 people at the American Civic Association, a lawsuit is filed. Samir Muhammad Al-Salihi is suing Gander Mountain, claiming its negligence was a factor in the death of his wife, Layla Khalil. The lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Binghamton on Friday claims employees at Gander Mountain were aware Jiverly Wong was angry and mentally unstable. Still, it says they sold him 4 handguns and ammunition between 2008 and 2009. Ballistics reports show he used two guns to fire around 100 shots inside the ACA. Wong legally possessed...

(April 6) - Text of letter sent to Syracuse, N.Y., TV station News 10 Now from a man identifying himself as Jiverly Wong, the gunman who killed 13 people, then himself, at the American Civic Association in Binghamton. The letter was handwritten in all capital letters on two sheets of paper. It was postmarked Friday, April 3, the day of the shootings. Date March 18 2009 Dear NEW TEN NOW I am Jiverly Wong Shooting the people...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — A Vietnamese immigrant who killed 13 people and himself at an upstate New York civic center fired 98 shots from two handguns in just over a minute, according to police. Ballistics reports show that 41-year-old Jiverly Wong fired 87 times from a 9mm Beretta and 11 times from a .45-caliber handgun...

NPR.org, April 4, 2009 · Jiverly Wong was upset over losing his job at a vacuum plant, didn't like people picking on him for his limited English and once angrily told a co-worker, "America sucks." It remains unclear exactly why the Vietnamese immigrant strapped on a bulletproof vest, barged in on a citizenship class and killed 13 people and himself, but the police chief says he knows one thing for sure: "He must have been a coward."

A portrait of an angry, isolated man is beginning to emerge of Jiverly Wong, the shooter who is believed to have killed 13 victims before turning the gun on himself at a civic center for new immigrants in Binghamton, New York on Friday. Voong was the "kind of guy who would come in mad one day and shoot people," said Kevin Greene, who described himself as a former co-worker of the alleged shooter at a Shop Vac assembly plant that had since closed, the New York Daily News reported. A string of attacks in the U.S. in the last month...