A gunman opened fire at a Carson City, Nev., IHOP restaurant, killing three people -- including two National Guard members -- and wounding nine others before he ended the carnage by shooting himself, police said.
The gunman, whom police have not identified, shot himself in the head with an automatic rifle at the the restaurant. He was taken to a hospital where he died three hours later.
At least five of the people the gunman wounded were members of the National Guard, a spokesman for the Nevada National Guard said. Two of those members died. One of the dead National Guard members was a woman and the other a man, The Associated Press reported.
Carson City Chief Deputy Jack Freer said that the nine people wounded at at the IHOP were taken to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno and a hospital in Carson City. He said the condition of those nine people are unknown.
The suspect arrived at the IHOP in a blue minivan just before 9 a.m. and was seen running into the restaurant, police said.
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Watch Video Police said the shooting began inside the restaurant, and then continued as the suspect came out into the parking lot, but some witnesses described things differently.
Ralph Swagler, an owner of Locals Barbecue near the IHOP, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he saw the gunman first shoot and kill a man on a motorcycle before taking aim at seven others.
"Right now it appears that there was one shooter," Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong. "There does not appear to be any safety concerns outside this area of where we're standing."
At least 11 agencies, both federal and state, are working the scene, the sheriff said.
Kurt Althof, a public relations manager for Care Flight, told the Gazette-Journal that helicopters from three of their bases were called to the scene at around 9 a.m.
Althof told the newspaper that the helicopters have transported at least three victims to Renown Regional Medical center, two women and one man. At least two of them are in critical condition, Althof told the paper.
Preliminary information was that the the shooter was an ex-employee of the pancake house, but police now say that they can't confirm that about the shooter.
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