The death toll from a shooting in the US state of Nevada has risen to four, with seven injured.
A gunman yesterday opened fire on a group of National Guardsmen having breakfast at a pancake restaurant.
The shooter, named as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion, used an AK-47 assault rifle in the early morning attack in Carson City.
Three Guardsmen were among the dead and two were injured.
Three people were pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, with the fourth, a female member of the National Guard, confirmed overnight.
"This is a real tragic event," Sheriff Ken Furlong said, adding in a briefing late last night that he believed it was "the largest single shooting incident to occur in Carson City history."
Witnesses called emergency services shortly after 9am (5pm Irish time Tuesday) when they saw an armed man in the car park of the International House of Pancakes.
The five National Guard members - two women and three men - were having an informal meeting when the shooter came in and fired on their table, Mr Furlong said.
The sheriff's office said he then went outside, where "his shooting spree continued into the restaurant's parking lot, culminating in him turning the gun on himself."
Mexican-born Sencion - a Carson City resident with a US passport and no criminal history, according to police records - initially survived, but died later of his wounds.
In addition to the AK-47 used in the attack, two other firearms were found at the scene, but had not been fired, the sheriff said.
In Washington, the Pentagon condemned the shooting.
"The senseless loss of life is a tragedy whenever and wherever it happens," said Department of Defense spokesman George Little.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the top Democrat in the US Senate, voiced sorrow at the shooting, adding that Carson City, the state capital, was a "peaceful, quiet place."
"To have something like this happen is just very, very difficult to accept," he said.
The restaurant chain also voiced shock. "Our thoughts are with the victims and families of the senseless shooting," it said in a statement.
