When police later found Reynolds, he entered a store until authorities eventually entered and found him dead for unknown reasons, police said. The incident began Wednesday morning in Biloxi, when police responded to reports of shootings at a Broadway Inn Express hotel shortly after 9 a.m., the Biloxi Police Department (BPD) said in a press release. When police arrived, they found three victims dead from obvious gunshot wounds. The owner of the hotel, Mohammad Moeini, 51, and two other employees who also stayed at the hotel, Laura Lehman, 61, and Chad Green, 55, were later identified, BPD said in a joint news conference with Gulfport Police Department (GPD). Biloxi officials found the suspect had fled to the nearby town of Gulfport in a vehicle belonging to one of the victims, BPD said. The motive for the shootings at the hotel has not been determined, Biloxi police said, noting that it was not clear if the suspect was staying at the hotel or if he knew the victims. At around 9:30 a.m. in Gulfport, police responded to a shooting where they discovered that 52-year-old William Waltman had been shot and taken by car by the suspect who later identified himself as Reynolds, Gulfport Police Chief Adam Cooper told Press conference. Waltman was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead after surgery, the GPD said. When Gulfport officers later found Reynolds and the stolen vehicle, he ran to a nearby convenience store, they said. Two employees of the store managed to escape before Reynolds entered a barrier, the GPD announcement said. SWAT teams from GPD and Harrison County were deployed to the scene and made “multiple attempts to contact the suspect within the operation,” the GPD said in a statement. After developing tear gas in the building, the SWAT team came in and found Reynolds “dead from unknown circumstances,” the GPD said. “They were not shot by the suspect or the police during the fight,” Harrison County Medical Examiner Brian Switzer told a news conference. A small fire was discovered near Reynolds’s body, although it is not clear how it started, Switzer added. An autopsy will be performed on Reynolds and all four victims this week, Switzer said.
