Siege killer a troubled Afghan war veteran

THE man who killed three women after a day-long siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular life after he returned from the Afghanistan war.

Authorities offered little information about why Albert Wong, 36, attacked The Pathway Home and whether he targeted his victims.

Those who knew the women said they had dedicated their lives to helping those suffering like Wong, and they would have been in a good position to assist him had Friday’s hostage situation ended differently.

Authorities said Wong, an ex-army rifleman who served a year in Afghanistan in 2011-2012 and returned highly decorated, went to the campus about 50 miles north of San Francisco, slipping into a leaving party for some workers of The Pathway Home. He let some people leave, but kept the three.

Police said a Napa Valley sheriff’s deputy exchanged gunshots with Wong around 10.30am but after that nothing was heard from him. Hours later, authorities found four bodies, including Wong.

His victims were identified as The Pathway Home executive director Christine Loeber, 48, clinical director Jennifer Golick, 42, and Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba, 32, a clinical psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.

Cissy Sherr and her husband became Wong’s legal guardians after his father died and his mother developed health problems. He moved back in with them for a little while in 2013 after he returned from his deployment in Afghanistan and kept in touch online.

He joined the Pathway House course to study computers and business, buit it has been revealed he had recently been expelled from the course