the Case will therefore be treated as a hate crime, notify the police in Sunnyvale outside of San Francisco, where the deed took place on Tuesday.

According to local media were three of the victims members of the same family, a father and his daughter and son. The family’s nationality and religion has not been disclosed.

The 34-year-old man’s attorney says that it ”clearly is a case, which is the result of mental illness”, and describes his client as a war veteran possibly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.