LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Metro police are investigating whether the synthetic drug Spice contributed to a gunman shooting and killing a gym employee last month.

Metro police suspect Daniel Ortega, 34, intended to carry out a mass shooting at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on Rainbow Boulevard near Vegas Drive before his gun jammed.

On Friday, May 16, Ortega killed Edgar Quinonez, 31. Metro police shot and killed Ortega as he ran out of the front of the business. Three other people were injured in the shooting.

“We don’t have a definitive answer on it,” LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during an exclusive interview Wednesday with the 8 News Now Investigators. “I can tell you there was a long history of abuse of the drug Spice. That certainly could have contributed to that strange behavior.”

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