A man who reportedly shouted “Free Palestine!” while opening fire killed one and injured two others at a New Hampshire country club on Saturday night.

Unlike in other recent attacks where assailants have used the phrase, there was no indication that the alleged gunman was motivated by a political ideology or outlook on the Middle East, officials said on Sunday.

Instead, they said, Hunter Nadeau, who had previously been employed at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, appeared to use the slogan and others to sow chaos during his attack, which came during a wedding at the club.

“At this point, the evidence leads us to believe it is more likely that Mr. Nadeau was simply trying to make a number of statements to create chaos in the moment,” the state’s attorney general, John Formella, to

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