A day later, what we know about Nathan Desai

A day after an attorney shot up a neighborhood in southwest Houston, bits and pieces about his life have started to trickle out.

What is known about Nathan Desai 24 hours after his rampage and death isn't much, but a picture is starting to take shape.

Desai had no police record, no issues with law enforcement and no pending complaints with the Texas Bar. Neighbors and even his former law partner didn't know him well.

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A neighbor, Jennifer Molleda, described Desai as keeping to himself.

"He's very secluded, we've seen him take out the trash a few times," Molleda said. "You normally say hi to neighbors, but when neighbors don't say hi back, you tend to mind your own business."

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Desai had some of the trappings of success - a black convertible Porsche - parked near his West University-area home. He also had multiple firearms, including a Thompson submachine gun and 2,600 rounds of ammunition in his car at the time of the shootings Monday morning.

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He may have also had career problems.

DeSai, who held a bachelor's in psychology from the University of Houston and a law degree from the University of Tulsa, specialized in criminal, business and family law.

But, a 12-year law partnership dissolved earlier this year.

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"We couldn't afford to operate as a partnership anymore," former law partner Kenneth McDaniel said.

The night before he died, DeSai went by his parents' Houston home. He was in a hurry and took his dinner to go, recalled his father Prakash DeSai, a retired geologist.

He said his son had been upset for months over troubles at his work, chiefly trying to attract clients.

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"We are not getting any business," he recalled his son saying. "Who wouldn't be worried?"

Desai apparently had an interest in military history. Police described what could be Nazi emblems on his clothing and old Nazi emblems among his personal effects.

Officials would not say specifically what type of uniform he was wearing. Photographs of his body show DeSai apparently wearing military-style spats strapped over his boots. And, the medical examiner's office formally identified Desai on Tuesday.

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"To what extent that played ... I don't know, because there was also other, what I would refer to as historic or vintage military stuff in the apartment, going back to the Civil War," Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready said.

Acting Houston Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference Monday afternoon police did not yet know exactly what caused DeSai to snap. The FBI has been brought in to assist.

"At this point we are very open-minded in terms of motive," Montalvo said.