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 The shooting, the latest in a rash of deadly gun violence in
public places in the United States this year, occurred Tuesday
afternoon inside a building adjacent to the Renown Regional Medical
Center, Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said.
The gunman walked past the front desk of the doctor's office on the
third-floor of the building and into the area of patient exam rooms
carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and opened fire.
He killed doctor Charles Gara Gholdoian, 46, a urologist, and
injured a patient, Shawntae Spears, 20. A second female victim's
name was being withheld at her request, police said at a news
conference.
Reno police would not release the name of the suspected gunman.
Hovever, Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood identified the suspect
as 51-year-old Alan Frazier, of Lake Almanor, California, about 130
miles northwest of Reno, Nevada.
Plumas County officials worked with Reno police in the
investigation, Hagwood said, adding that officials collected
evidence at Frazier's residence and notified next of kin. Lake
Almanor is in Plumas Country.
"He was a longtime Plumas County resident with no outstanding
criminal history that I'm aware of," Hagwood said, adding Frazier
lived alone and had resided in the area for more than 20 years.
The gunman walked past the front desk of the doctor's office on the
third-floor of the building and into the area of patient exam rooms
carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and opened fire.
He killed doctor Charles Gara Gholdoian, 46, a urologist, and
injured a patient, Shawntae Spears, 20. A second female victim's
name was being withheld at her request, police said at a news
conference.
The suspect fired five rounds in all, including one he used to kill
himself before police swarming the building arrived on the scene.
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"We're still trying to piece together the timeline of events,"
Deputy Police Chief Mac Venzon told reporters.
Venzon said investigators have no knowledge of a family relationship
between the gunman and his victims, or what other ties he might have
had to them.
"The fact that the shooter went through the first and second floor
and made his way to the third floor of the building would indicate
to me that it's not a random event," he said.
Deputy Chief Tom Robinson added: "We don't know what the motive was
but obviously he had something he wanted to do there (at the
doctor's office)."
Police also said they had not determined whether the gunman was a
patient of the medical office or the adjacent hospital.
The Center for Advanced Medicine B, where the shooting took place,
is in an office building across a road from the main hospital
campus.
The shooting in Reno, the most populous city in Nevada outside the
Las Vegas metropolitan area, came four days after a Colorado
teenager armed with a shotgun critically wounded a classmate and
committed suicide at a suburban Denver high school.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman and Eric Johnson;
editing by Alden
Bentley and W Simon)
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