The attorney for the man who sold what would become the deadly weapon in a mass shooting in New York City earlier this week said his client legally sold his co-worker the gun.

The gunman who opened fire at a Manhattan office building Monday, killing four people before taking his own life, legally purchased the rifle used in the attack, according to an attorney for the Las Vegas casino supervisor he bought it from.

New York City police detectives searched a studio apartment in Las Vegas that belonged to the suspected gunman in Monday's mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan.