Larry Rosenberg, 77, shot three people, killing one of them, at apartments in Wyoming before fleeing and then taking his own life as police closed in

Resident, 77, goes on fatal shooting spree at US senior citizens' complex

A 77-year-old man shot three people at a senior citizens’ apartment complex where he lived, killing one before taking his own life as officers closed in, police said.

One victim was shot inside the Heritage Court Apartments in Cheyenne and two were shot outside, said Dan Long, spokesman for Cheyenne police.

Larry Rosenberg fled after the shootings on Wednesday armed with a handgun and rifle. He killed himself as officers approached him in a neighborhood about a mile away, Long said.

No motive was disclosed for the shootings but a woman who knew Rosenberg said he had grown distant recently.

“He started getting more and more distant, complaining about the facility and about people and just kind of pulling away, isolating himself more and more,” said Margaret Rosso, whose mother lives at the complex.

Rosso’s mother, 80-year-old Mary Eastman, said she and Rosenberg went to yard sales together.

Eastman said she saw Rosenberg before the shooting, went out shopping and came back to find that the complex had turned into a crime scene.

Police comforted a distraught woman at the scene. What appeared to be a covered body was visible within an area cordoned off by authorities.

Heritage Court Apartments has 32 affordable housing units for households with at least one member aged 62 or older, according to its website.

Multiple shootings are rare in Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital city with a population of just over 60,000. City police handled six homicide cases in 2015, the department’s annual report said.