Carson City IHOP shooting

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Carson City IHOP shooting
Location
murder-suicide
Weapons
Deaths5 (including the perpetrator)
Injured7
PerpetratorEduardo Sencion
MotiveUnknown[3]

On September 6, 2011, a mass shooting occurred in a branch of the IHOP in Carson City, Nevada, United States. A gunman, identified as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion,[4] killed four people, including three members of the National Guard, and wounded seven others before fatally shooting himself.

Shooting

At 8:58 a.m., Sencion arrived at a local strip mall in a blue minivan that was registered in his brother's name.

National Guardsmen
, all of whom were eating at the same table; five of them were shot, three of them fatally. He then targeted other patrons, killing a 67-year-old woman.

Sencion then left the restaurant and began shooting into three nearby businesses, injuring no one.

Glock 26 Gen3 semi-automatic pistol in his van outside the restaurant. Due to the severity of the massacre and fears that it would become more widespread, Nevada officials declared a lock-down on the state capitol and Supreme Court buildings for around 40 minutes, while extra security was set up at state and military buildings in northern Nevada.[5][10][11]

Victims

A total of four people, excluding the gunman, were killed in the shooting. They were identified as:

  • Florence Donovan-Gunderson, 67
  • Nevada National Guard Major Heath Kelly, 35
  • Nevada National Guard Sgt 1st Class Miranda McElhiney, 31
  • Nevada National Guard Sgt 1st Class Christian Riege, 38

Florence Donovan-Gunderson, Nevada National Guard Major Heath Kelly, and Nevada National Guard Sgt 1st Class Christian Riege were all declared dead at the scene, while Nevada National Guard Sgt 1st Class Miranda McElhiney later died at a local hospital. About three hours after the massacre, Sencion died at Noah J. Medical Center from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[6][12]

Seven other people survived the shooting with injuries, all of them caused by gunshot wounds. Four were taken to the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, three by helicopter, while the remaining three went to another hospital in Carson City to undergo surgery.[8][9][12] Four were in critical condition, while the remaining three suffered minor wounds. Two of the surviving victims were members of the National Guard.[5]

Perpetrator

Eduardo Sencion (also known as Eduardo Perez-Gonzalez; July 22, 1979 – September 6, 2011) was born in Mexico and had a valid U.S. passport. He had no previous criminal history and worked at his family's business located in

terrorist attack, and that he had no known connection to the military, nor motivation for shooting the National Guardsmen.[3][5][6][14]

Reaction

After the massacre, Nevada Senator

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval said in a written statement, "The [Carson City] mayor and I ... want to assure all Nevadans and especially residents of Carson City that everything is being done to ensure the public's safety." Sandoval also ordered flags flown at half-staff until Friday at dusk in honor of the slain National Guardsmen.[8] Two of the guardsmen were posthumously promoted in memory of their service: Master Sergeant Christian Riege and Lieutenant Colonel Heath Kelly.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ 911 tapes from Carson City shooting reveal frantic scene, Las Vegas Sun (September 7, 2011)
  2. ^ "Weapons IHOP Investigation" (PDF). leg.state.nv.us.
  3. ^ a b Martha Belleisle (September 1, 2012). "IHOP shooting one year later: 85 seconds that changed Carson City". Reno Gazette-Journal. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  4. ^ "Gunman kills 4 at Nevada pancake house, shoots self". Reuters. September 7, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Nevada IHOP attack leaves 5 dead, including gunman, CBC News (September 6, 2011)
  6. ^ a b c IHOP shooting: Nevada gunman kills four in diner, BBC News (September 7, 2011)
  7. ^ "Sheriff: Gun in Nevada IHOP shooting was illegally altered to fully automatic machine gun". The Washington Post. October 5, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2011.[dead link]
  8. ^ a b c d Four dead in shooting at Nevada restaurant Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Reuters (September 6, 2011)
  9. ^
    Fox News Channel
    (September 6, 2011)
  10. ^ Gunman kills 3, wounds others at Nevada IHOP, CNN (September 7, 2011)
  11. ^ IHOP SHOOTING: Friends, family remember victims of shooting, Nevada Appeal (September 8, 2011)
  12. ^ a b National Guard Members Among Four Dead in Carson City Nevada IHOP Shooting Rampage, ABC News (September 6, 2011)
  13. ^ Shooting at IHOP Press Releases, carson.org
  14. ^ Fatal Shooting At Nevada Pancake Restaurant, Sky News (September 6, 2011)
  15. ^ Nevada National Guard honors comrades killed in IHOP shooting, Las Vegas Sun (September 11, 2011)
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