An 18-year-old gunman who randomly killed three people as he roamed through a New Mexico neighborhood this week legally bought the assault-style rifle he used in the shooting spree, authorities said on Tuesday.
The teenager, whose rampage ended when police shot him dead, was identified as Beau Wilson, a high school student in Farmington, the city where Monday's shooting took place, Police Deputy Chief Kyle Dowdy told a media briefing.
Wilson was staying at an address in the neighborhood where the shootings took place but there is nothing to indicate he knew any of the victims, Dowdy said. When officers responded to emergency calls late on Monday morning, they found the gunman indiscriminately shooting at people in a neighborhood of single-story homes, churches and doctors offices.and six people wounded, including two officers. The shooting spree ended when the gunman was fatally shot outside a church, according to police.
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