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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: US police seek motive for New York state slayings AFP - 1 hour 54 minutes ago BINGHAMTON, New York, (AFP) - - US police sought to uncover why a jobless immigrant went on a murderous rampage in a center where he had learned English, mowing down 13 people before killing himself. ADVERTISEMENT The bespectacled gunman at the heart of the tragedy in the quiet New York town of Binghamton was identified as Jiverly Voong, 41, of Vietnamese descent, who until early March had been taking classes at the American Civic Association . Early Friday Voong, who had legally changed his name from Wong, donned body armor, blocked the center's back doors with his car and then burst into the front of the building unleashing a hail of gunfire, police said. Without uttering a word, Voong shot two receptionists, killing one, then strode into a classroom where an English lesson was being held and shot dead another 12 people before turning the gun on himself, police chief Joseph Zikuski said. The dead included four Chinese nationals, Beijing state media said, and a Philippine woman identified as Dolores Carbonillas Yigal. The alarm was raised by the surviving receptionist, hailed as a hero by the police chief, who played dead after being shot in the stomach. She then crawled under her desk to call 911 on her cell phone. She and the other three injured were Saturday still being treated in hospital. Two were in a critical condition. The small community, 135 miles (215 kilometers) northwest of New York city, voiced shock Saturday at the outburst of violence, especially angered that it had happened at a center trying to help new immigrants chasing the American dream. "That this tragedy should have happened in our community to our friends who only wanted to advance their knowledge and love of America is unbearable," the center's president Angela Leach told reporters as she fought back tears. "Whatever drove this individual to do what he did, I cannot possibly fathom," she added, vowing to continue the center's work "to help people realize the dreams of American citizenship." The names of the victims have not yet been released, but mayor Matthew Ryan said Binghamton authorities had had inquiries from nine countries and two consulates about the safety of their nationals. Voong, who had a gun permit since the late 1990s, had recently lost his job at the Shop Vac assembly plant, which the New York Daily News reported had closed down in November. "We picked up that apparently people were making fun of him. He felt he was being degraded because of... his inability to speak English. And he was upset about that," Zikuski said. A former co-worker of Voong quoted in The New York Times said he was surprised to see Voong at a local gym three times, including the night before the shootings. The man was also a gun enthusiast who often spent weekends shooting targets and trying out different guns at a local sporting goods store, the paper noted. Son Quach said Voong told him in Vietnamese he had been laid off with 200 dollars a week in unemployment benefits, and that he spent more time in the gym because he couldn't find another job. "Obviously this investigation will focus a lot upon what the motive may have been. We may not ever come up with anything," Zikuski said. But he did rule out any tie to terrorism. It was the second mass shooting in less than a week in the United States, as the economic downtown claims more jobs and blights more lives. On Saturday, a 23-year-old man shot and killed three policemen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after apparently losing his job at a glass works. Binghamton too has been hit by layoffs, with insurer AIG and computer giant IBM both cutting staff. CNN reported that several years ago Voong had been employed at a hi-tech firm, Endicott Interconnect, which produces computer chips for medical equipment and where Wong had a supervisory role, training his co-workers. President Barack Obama, speaking in Strasbourg on the sidelines of NATO summit, said: "I am heartbroken for the families who survived this tragedy. "It just underscores the degree to which in each of our countries, we have to guard against the kind of senseless violence that tragedy represents." Friday's carnage is the latest incident to rock small-town America, where many fiercely defend the legal right to bear firearms, but which is also being hit by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Obama to call for nuclear-free worldReuters - 47 minutes ago Presidential runoff in EU aspirant MacedoniaAFP - 1 hour 28 minutes ago US police seek motive for New York state slayingsAFP - 1 hour 54 minutes ago Moldova votes with pro-EU Communists tipped to winAFP - 2 hours 25 minutes ago Recession 'worse than we thought': UK ministerAFP - 2 hours 40 minutes ago Enlarge Photo People are escorted by police from the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York where a gunman went on a rampage killing 13 people then himself. 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