MAN WALKS INTO AN IHOP & STARTS SHOOTING SH!T UP WITH A AK-47 BEFORE KILLING HIMSELF!

A gunman packing an AK-47 assault rifle opened fire inside a Nevada IHOP Tuesday, shooting 12 people - five of them National Guardsmen, officials and witnesses said.
Four people were killed: three uniformed National Guardsmen and a civilian woman.

After his rampage at the Carson City pancake joint near the state Capitol, the gunman fatally shot himself in the head.

He was identified as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion of Carson City. Records show he worked in his family's grocery store in nearby South Lake Tahoe, Ca.

His motive remained unknown, but witnesses said he appeared to target a back table in the restaurant full of National Guardsmen.

"They were sitting all the way in the back," said Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong. "He traveled all the way through the restaurant. He did not open fire until he got to the dining area."

Furlong said Sencion's family told cops he had "mental health issues" but he did not elaborate.

He said nothing in Sencion's behavior the night before the rampage gave his family reason to believe anything was amiss.

He had no criminal record, cops said.

Sencion was not a Guardsman and Major April Conway of the Nevada National Guard said his name was unknown to the military.

He was not a regular at the restaurant and waitresses did not recognize him, Furlong said.

KRNV-TV in Carson City reported that witnesses inside the restaurant said Sencion appeared "fixated" on the table of Guardsmen and spent most of his bullets there.

"We are actively pursuing an investigation on the motive," Furlong said.

Witness Ralph Swagler who owns a barbecue restaurant next to the IHOP, told the Reno Gazette-Journal he saw the gunman pull up in a blue minivan around 9 a.m.

He said the gunman shot what he thought was a man on a motorcycle, then walked inside the IHOP.

Furlong said a woman was found wounded near a bike in the IHOP parking lot.

After several minutes, Swagler said the gunman reemerged into the strip mall parking lot and began firing at his eatery, Locals Barbecue, and an H&R Block storefront.

"He spun around in the parking lot shooting," Furlong said.

"Most of the businesses in a 360 degree turn have been damaged."

Then Sencion turned his gun on himself.

Swagler told the Reno paper he had a handgun and could have tried to kill the gunman, but was afraid to open fire because the shooter had a powerful automatic rifle.

The nearby Nevada capitol, governor's office and supreme court were locked down as a precaution, and National Guard facilities were put on high alert.

Conway said the loss of a guardsman - whether in the heat of battle or over a harmless plate of flapjacks - hurts the same.

"We feel it the same no matter what circumstances in which they died," she said.



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