Rosenberg lived in the Heritage Court Apartments and had been angry about poker games in the building’s common room, one resident said.

“He did not like it. In fact, a lot of the people didn’t like it,” Mary Eastman,80, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle after the shooting. “That’s all I can think of. He was getting fed up with having the poker in there every other day.”

Eastman said that Rosenberg, among others, complained about the poker games at a recent resident meeting, but to no avail.

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According to the Tribune Eagle, “Rosenberg was upset but didn’t give Eastman any indication that he might take to violence, she said.”

Authorities have not commented on a possible motive.

Officers responded to a report of an active shooter at the location just after 11 a.m., according a Cheyenne Police Department statement.

The Tribune Eagle reported that Rosenberg shot three male residents — one inside the building and two in the parking lot.

The condition of the two survivors is unknown, and authorities have not publicly identified the victims.

The Associated Press noted that multiple-victim shootings “are rare in Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital city with a population of just over 60,000. City police handled six homicide cases last year, the department’s annual report said.”

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Police confirmed that Rosenberg was a resident of the Heritage Court Apartments, whose website describes the housing complex as “independent, affordable senior living” that was designed for “senior households.”

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Eastman, the Heritage Court resident, told the AP that Rosenberg was not alone in expressing anger about the thrice-weekly poker games that regularly included nonresidents.

“Sunday, Monday and then Wednesday — that’s too much,” the 80-year-old said, according to the AP. “To haul them people in we don’t even know; we don’t want to know them. No, we don’t. They’re taking up our space. Sleeping on the sofa. Sleeping on the recliner.”

Eastman told the Tribune Eagle: “I think it’s a shame that it happened. And I also feel that if they had kept that damned poker game out of the building, it wouldn’t have happened. That is my honest opinion.”

This post, originally published Sept. 14, has been updated.