THE MAN who killed 13 people and himself in a New York state immigrant centre sent a letter to a television station before his shooting spree. It ended with the words “And you have a nice day.”
Jiverly Wong, a 41-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, wore body armour into the Binghamton building where he had been studying English and shot immigrants taking an exam to become US citizens.
“I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people,” began the letter sent to News 10 Now of Syracuse, New York. He included photos of himself with two handguns.
Wong apologised for his poor English in the rambling, handwritten letter of two pages.
“Of course you need to know why I shooting?” he wrote, but never fully explained. He made unclear references to police harassment he received in New York and California before ending with, “And you have a nice day.”
Binghamton police chief Joseph Zikuski said on Saturday no motive had been determined, but confirmed reports Wong felt degraded by his inability to speak English and by a recent job loss.
Binghamton is a city of 45,000 people, about 240km northwest of New York city. – (Reuters)