Mormon shoot-out leaves three dead
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Your support makes all the difference.A GUNMAN walked into the Mormon genealogical library in Salt Lake City, Utah, yesterday, killing two people and injuring four others before being fatally wounded himself in a shoot-out with police.
The man, described as a convicted felon in his late fifties, opened fire in the lobby of the Family History Library killing a security guard and a female visitor. Police then swooped on the building, felling the man in a brief exchange of fire and evacuating a large area in case he was wired up with explosives. He died on the way to hospital. Eyewitnesses said the gunman had parked a yellow removal truck nearby and then asked for directions.
"He came in the lobby and shot a lady in the head and two or three other men," said one witness, Lyman Platt.
Police said they had identified the suspect but did not release his name.
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