CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : LAKE ELSINORE : 3 Shooting Victims Identified by Sheriff

Riverside County sheriff’s investigators have identified the three alleged victims of a gunman who held authorities at bay for nine hours while firing wildly with a semiautomatic rifle. The dead men, all residents of the Lake Elsinore area, are Dennis Whittaker, 30, Lonnie Besneatte, 41, and John H. Stewart, age unknown. All died from multiple gunshot wounds. Heinz Podszuweit, 30, is being held on three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder stemming from injuries two sheriff’s deputies suffered during the standoff early this week. Investigators said they still don’t have a motive for the slayings.