The mayor of a California town where a former soldier killed three women at a veterans treatment center says the employees will be remembered as beautiful people and called the gunman “one of our heroes who clearly had demons.”

Yountville Mayor John Dunbar said Saturday the shooting a day earlier at the Pathway Home was a “terrible tragedy.”

Dunbar also serves on the board of directors for the Pathway Home, a treatment program for veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He says the three women who were killed “lived their lives selflessly to serve others.”

Dunbar says the Pathway Home will continue to operate. He says the program’s board will meet later Saturday to discuss the plan.

The gunman, who was also found dead, was identified by police as 36-year-old Albert Wong.

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