A man dressed in a sports jacket and holding his gun sideways, as in a gangster movie, sprayed a Wendy's with bullets Monday, killing a fire rescue officer who had returned to the restaurant to collect a missing promotional toy for his child, authorities said.
The assailant -- identified by authorities as Alburn Blake, 60, of West Palm Beach -- wounded four other people before turning the 9mm handgun on himself and committing suicide in the fast-food restaurant a few miles from his home.
''My sister tried to run away, but he shot her anyway,'' Kachi Soto said of her 16-year-old sister, Vanessa, who was struck by a bullet and hospitalized.
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