Anger About Poker Games Preceded Senior Apartment Shooting

CHEYENNE, Wyo.— A 77-year-old man who shot three people, killing one, at the senior apartment complex where he lived had grown distant recently and had been angry about frequent poker games in the building’s common area, according to people who knew ...

A Cheyenne Police officer guards an entrance to Heritage Court Apartments Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 in northeast Cheyenne, Wyo. A 77-year-old man living at a senior citizen apartment complex shot three people at the complex Wednesday, killing one of them, and then killed himself nearby as officers closed in on him, police said. Blaine McCartney/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP

CHEYENNE, Wyo.—A 77-year-old man who shot three people, killing one, at the senior apartment complex where he lived had grown distant recently and had been angry about frequent poker games in the building’s common area, according to people who knew him.

One person died at the Heritage Court Apartments and two others were wounded. Larry Rosenberg, the shooter, killed himself as police closed in on him in a neighborhood about a mile away, Cheyenne police said.

Mary Eastman, 80, said Rosenberg handed her a letter as she headed out to shop the morning of the shooting. Eastman said she left the letter in her apartment and didn’t read it until later — after she returned to find the building a crime scene.

Police eventually let her back in to get her dog.

Two women grieve after hearing news that a shooting at Heritage Court Apartments Sept. 14, 2016 in northeast Cheyenne, Wyo. Blaine McCartney/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP