Three women and their captor were found dead at a veterans' home in California after a shootout that followed hours of futile negotiations with police.
The three women were workers in a program for the recovery of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress.
The bodies of the four were discovered nearly eight hours after the gunman infiltrated a farewell party at a facility that cares for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.
Police have not released the identities of the kidnapper and victims, nor do they yet know the motive for the attack on the Veterans Home of California-Yountville.
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