VIRGINIA BEACH -- Police say the man who went on a shooting spree at an apartment complex Wednesday evening is among the dead.

William T. Smith, 52, was found in his unit at Thalia Gardens Apartments, along with a 63-year-old maintenance worker, Sam Shestul.

Another maintenance worker, 32-year-old Rebecca Hughes, also was killed. Neighbors told 13News she was a mother of two children.

The complex manager, 47-year-old Laura Lawson, is in stable condition. Two other maintenance workers, whose names haven't been released, are in the hospital. One of them is in critical condition, acccording to police.

Flowers were left at the scene Thursday, less than 24 hours after the shooting at the complex on Inverness Road off Bonney Road, near Mt. Trashmore.

Smith's mother let her lease laps on the apartment and moved back to New York, but investigators have yet to determine why Smith was there when workers came to do a walk-through on the supposedly empty apartment.

Smith opened the door for the workers, holding two weapons, an AK-47 and MAC-10, and started shooting.

"He just opened fire on them, unpremeditated," said Adam Bernstein, spokesman for the Virginia Beach Police Department. "We don't know what his motivation was, other than being unhappy with the eviction process."

Police arrived around 5:00 p.m. and believed he was still inside a building, so the SWAT Team surrounded it.

Around 7:15 p.m., police started calling out to anyone inside the building to "Come out with your hands up."

That lasted for about an hour as a spotlight shone on the front door of the building, which has four units. Police covered the front and back entrances while dozens of residents waited on the perimeter, unsure when they would be allowed back in their homes.

Shortly before 10:00 p.m., a team went into the building, and by 10:30 p.m., police declared the building "secure."

Witness Antionetta Mosley said she saw the suspect carrying a shot gun in one hand and another gun in the other come out of a unit and shoot a woman wearing an apartment complex uniform around 5:00 p.m. She said people began to scatter as the man fired several more shots.

After the shooting, Mosley said the man went into an apartment, at which point she heard someone screaming, "Please help me." Mosley said that was followed by four shots, then silence.

Mosley believed the suspect had two weapons when the shooting began, before he emptied 12 or so rounds.

"The only one I could see from the distance I was at was a shotgun," she said. "The other one was a smaller gun, probably a .45."

Erica Eby was trying to get back home when the story behind the massive SWAT situation was relayed to her by another person who claimed to have witnessed it.

"The girl was on the ground. She'd been shot in the back, and then shot her exactly seven times, and then shot the head maintenance man in the head," Eby said, retelling the information. "And then turned around and walked back into the house calm as can be as though nothing had happened."

Michael Devine with Nusbaum Realty says the company will help the victims and their families.

"We're setting up a fund and we would love any assistance with that. We're working with families with devastated losses. We hope you can help us calm things down and get back to normal."

Both weapons police say Smith used in the shooting are illegal in Virginia, and even if they were legal, Smith did not have a concealed weapons permit in the City of Virginia Beach.

Police say Smith was from New York and had no family locally.