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Dozens of 911 calls made from in and around a Carson City IHOP detail a frantic scene as witnesses tried to describe the shooter and dispatchers try to figure out if more than one person is involved.
The callers describe seeing a man wearing a red shirt and black pants. Many are crying as dispatchers frantically try to gather information on where the shooter went.
Police said when they arrived, the shooter was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
He was identified as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion. The rampage killed three members of the Nevada National Guard, a 67-year-old woman and wounded seven others.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong says the National Guard members killed were 38-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Christian Riege of Carson City, 31-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney of Reno and 35-year-old Major Heath Kelly of Reno.
Also killed was 67-year-old Florence Donovan-Gunderson of South Lake Tahoe. (At the time of this writing her picture has not been released to the public.)
Fred Ciccarelli of Gardnerville was eating inside the IHOP when the shooting happened. "I was down there having a breakfast meeting and I got there about ten minutes to 8am and we're just talking, and approximately, I don't know 8:45 we started to hear what we thought was fireworks. Then all of a sudden the glass shatters and my partners went under the table and I stayed up and watched what was happening unfolding in front of me. And I noticed this...male about 5'9" to 5'11" with what I perceived to be an AK-47 from what I've seen in movies and what have you, and he was firing at the military personnel...20, 25 rounds...they didn't stand a chance. Then he turns away and he walks and kind of turns and shoots two people behind him, then he walked out the front and exited from that point."
Ciccarelli said after the shooting stopped he tried to help as many of the victims as he could. He says if he had been sitting just a few feet from where he was, he might not have escaped unscathed. "When I first got in there the waitress said 'you want to sit here' and I said 'well, I'm having a business meeting so I prefer to sit in the back' and I was going to sit right behind them but the young lady said that's not my booth, this one is. So I was...it's kind of eerie...I'll take whatever sixth sense that is."
Ciccarelli says surviving the shooting has given him a new appreciation for the value of life.
In all, authorities say Sencion shot 11 people in a span of about five to seven minutes. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says they still aren't sure if Sencion was targeting members of the military. He says they have no motive, but they plan to meet with his family Wednesday. "I would expect we would be able to draw some conclusions here very, very quickly. It is a standard that these investigations will run anywhere from 30 to 60 days very easily."
When Sheriff Furlong was asked how the community recovers from something like this, he said, "We rebuild...we rebuild and we never forget what happened."
(The Associated Press also contributed to this report.)
Sergeant First Class Christian Riege
Major Heath Kelly
Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney
Florence Donovan-Gunderson/California Dept. of Motor Vehicles
