The attacker died, but no one else was injured in an episode reminiscent of the Las Vegas hotel killings two months ago.
RENO, Nev. — A gunman holding a hostage opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday, shooting for about 20 minutes onto the streets below, the authorities said. No injuries were reported.
The man died Tuesday after a SWAT team descended on him while he was barricaded at the high-rise, known as the Montage, Deputy Chief Tom Robinson said. It was not immediately clear whether he was killed by police gunfire or his own. No one else, including the hostage, was hurt.
The gunman’s name has not been released. Chief Robinson described him only as a young adult.
The condominium tower is surrounded by some of downtown Reno’s most popular casinos, and the gunfire brought eerie echoes of the Las Vegas rampage that killed dozens two months ago. But aside from the gunman no one was reported hurt in Tuesday’s attack, as the streets were mostly empty on a cold weeknight.
Stephen Paddock, the man who opened fire on Oct. 1 in Las Vegas from the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino onto an outdoor concert below, killing 58 people, had owned a unit at the Montage. Records show he sold the property last December.
“When you heard it’s coming from above it reminds you of the guy shooting from Mandalay Bay,” said Mike Pavicich, who was in Reno on business from Las Vegas and was standing atop a parking garage at the neighboring Eldorado Resort Casino when the shots rang out.
“It’s scary, you know?” Mr. Pavicich told The Las Vegas Review-Journal. “This is the same kind of town.”
The building was once a casino itself before it was converted into luxury condos, according to its website.
Trooper Chris Kelley of the Nevada Highway Patrol told The Reno Gazette-Journal that shots were heard from the building for at least 20 minutes, and television news reporters said they heard several shots after arriving, though they were sporadic, not constant.
In the attack in Las Vegas, Mr. Paddock modified an AR-15 to loose a stream of constant bullets like an automatic weapon.
