Suspect in Reno casino triple shooting had no known connection to victims

The suspect alleged to have opened fire at a Reno, Nevada, casino Monday was identified as a local man with no known connections to his victims, police said Tuesday

The suspect alleged to have opened fire at a Reno, Nevada, casino Monday was identified as a local man with no known connections to his victims, police said Tuesday.

Sparks police identified the dead as Southern California residents Andrew Canepa and Justin Aguila, both 33, and northwest Nevada resident Angel Martinez, 66.

Aguila and Canepa were in Sparks for a bachelor party, police said in a statement. They were both shot from behind at Grand Sierra Resort while they were waiting in the valet area for a ride to Reno-Tahoe International Airport, the police department said.

An investigator walks past police vehicles during an investigation into a shooting at GSR Casino in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday.KCRAJeff Gorell, a Ventura County, California, supervisor and former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, said on Facebook that Canepa was a co-owner of Side Street Café in the Newbury Park community, about 40 miles west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Gorell described Canepa as the father of a young son and a "kind soul."