Third National Guardsman Dies In IHOP Shooting Rampage
Sept. 7 2011, Published 8:15 a.m. ET
By Neil Woulfe - Breaking Celebrity News Senior News Director
A third member of the National Guard -- a woman -- died overnight as a result of injuries she suffered at the hands of a crazed gunman who opened fire in an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nevada Tuesday morning.
In all, five people, including the gunman (who took his own life), were killed in the rampage, which also left seven others wounded.
Authorities are now trying to determine whether the gunman -- identified as 32-year-old Carson City resident Eduardo Sencion -- specifically targeted the group of National Guard personnel who were eating breakfast in the restaurant.
Of the eleven victims shot in the rampage, five were National Guard members who were sitting together, all in uniform, in the back of the IHOP. Two of the service members -- a man and a woman -- died earlier on Tuesday.
Police say Sencion -- who was born in Mexico, but was here in the United States under a U.S. passport -- had no criminal history; his family says, however, he had a history of mental illness.
Police say Sencion first shot a woman in the parking lot of the IHOP with an AK-47 and then entered the restaurant and opened fire; he then went back to the parking lot, crouched down between