Yountville attack: California hostage-taker was former patient

The man who slaughtered three ladies after a remain off at a veterans' home in Napa Valley, California was a previous patient, specialists say. 

The three casualties were all workers at the middle in Yountville. 

The private focus gives emotional well-being administrations to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

The presumed shooter, who passed on at the scene, has been named as Albert Wong, 36. No rationale in the assault has been distinguished, police say. 

Wong, allegedly a previous US Army sharpshooter, had left a program to treat post-horrendous pressure issue (PTSD). 

The shooter entered the building while workers were having cake as a leaving festivity for a few associates. 

Following an attack enduring throughout the day police found the four bodies in a room at The Pathway Home on Friday evening. 

The three workers who kicked the bucket have been named by the Napa County Sheriff-Coroner's Office as Jennifer Golick, 42, the clinical chief, Christine Loeber, 48, the official executive, and 29-year-old Jennifer Gonzalez, a clinical therapist. 

The warrior had put in a year in Afghanistan and had been granted four decorations, US media report.