By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming man who shot three people at the senior citizen apartment complex where he lived, killing a complex employee before he killed himself, wrote a letter before the shooting expressing concern about poker games being held in the complex, police said Thursday.
Cheyenne Police Department spokesman Dan Long called it a “letter of discontent” but did not disclose further details about what Larry Rosenberg wrote before he opened fire and said detectives have not yet made conclusions about Rosenberg’s motive.
Long also said there may have been “longstanding animosity” between the 77-year-old Rosenberg and the three victims before the shooting Wednesday at Heritage Court Apartments complex in Wyoming’s state capital.
The complex employee who was killed was identified Thursday as 45-year-old Matthew Wilson. Wounded in the shooting were complex residents and residents Gregory Gilbert, 65, and Larry Warwick, 74.
Long said he did not know if Wilson and Warwick were among those residents who had participated in the poker parties in a complex common room that angered Rosenberg.
Rosenberg gave the letter to another complex resident before the shootings. She left to go shopping, returned to find that the complex had turned into a crime scene, read the letter and gave it to investigators.
Rosenberg fled the complex on a bicycle, Long said.
He shot himself with a handgun about a mile away from the complex as officers approached him.
Rosenberg had “past contacts” with police but Long said he was unable to provide details.
Detectives on Thursday were conducting additional interviews with apartment complex residents, Long said.
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