At least two dead in Nevada mass shooting
A gunman opened fire at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nevada today, killing one person and wounding some 10 others before taking his own life, authorities said.
Officers who responded to reports of a man with a gun at the restaurant arrived at about 9 a.m. local time to find five to six people shot in the parking lot, Carson City Sheriff's spokesman Commander Jack Freer told Reuters.
Freer said seven more victims were discovered inside the restaurant.
"The suspect was found down with a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Freer said, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Freer said one of the victims was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. Seven others were in surgery there, he said.
"We just heard basically a string of gunshots, probably 5 to 7 back to back to back to back and then there was probably 30 second delay then an automatic weapon fired, probably 20 to 30 shots," said Gary Gamba, general sales manager at Michael Hohl Motors, which is across the street from the IHOP.
Gamba said smoke could be seen from the weapons and several minutes later police and ambulances began to arrive.
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