LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The man who Metro police say attempted a mass shooting at a gym earlier this year was not impaired and died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained Thursday.
On Friday, May 16, Daniel Ortega, 34, killed Edgar Quinonez, 31, inside a Las Vegas Athletic Club on Rainbow Boulevard near Vegas Drive. Metro police shot and killed Ortega as he ran out of the business. Three other people were injured in the shooting.
Police suspect Ortega intended to carry out the mass shooting at the gym before his gun jammed. Ortega was a member of the gym and worked out at that location, but there was no connection known between him and Quinonez, police said in the shooting’s aftermath…