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Las Vegas police sketched out Monday a rough portrait of the two Las Vegas shooting rampage聽suspects, portraying them as militant white supremacists who harbored antigovernment theologies.

Clark County Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill identified Jerad and Amanda Miller as the two suspects, who reportedly killed themselves after shooting two police officers and a civilian.

Details of the shootings on Sunday remain cloudy. However, police accounts suggest that the couple ambushed the two officers while they were eating lunch at a Las Vegas pizzeria, stole their weapons, then fled to a nearby Wal-Mart, where they shot a bystander. The entire incident lasted a matter of minutes before Ms. Miller reportedly shot her husband and then turned the gun on herself.

Mr. McMahill said at a news briefing that the suspects placed some unusual items on the officers' bodies: a yellow Revolutionary War-era banner bearing a coiled snake and the phrase 鈥淒on鈥檛 tread on me,鈥� a swastika, and a note declaring revolution.

鈥淲e believe that they equate government and law enforcement with fascism, with Nazis,鈥� McMahill said, according to CNN. 鈥淚n other words, they believe law enforcement is the oppressor.鈥�

According to the Millers' neighbors, the couple had previously bragged about their cache of weapons and said they were biding their time until the right moment to launch an attack on police officers, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports.

鈥淭hey were handing out white-power propaganda and were talking about doing the next Columbine,鈥� neighbor Brandon Moore told the Las Vegas Sun.

Ms. Miller reportedly "liked" several videos espousing the killing of police officers, including "Shooting Cops," "Citizens Can Shoot Police," and "When Is It Okay To Shoot a Cop,"聽Mother Jones reports.聽

In the weeks leading up to the attack, the couple posted a series of chilling comments on their respective Facebook pages, according to extremism expert Mark Potok, who pens the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 "Hatewatch" blog.

Police are looking into reports that the Millers had joined the antigovernment militia that amassed on rancher Cliven Bundy鈥檚 property in Nevada in April during a dispute with the federal government over grazing rights. Mr. Bundy has publicly stated that he does not recognize the authority of the federal government and refused to pay.聽

Since the shootings, the Las Vegas Review Journal reached out to Bundy鈥檚 wife, Carol, who said she had no reason to believe that the militia members who had flocked to the family鈥檚 aid 鈥渉ad any intent to kill or harm anyone.鈥�

This report includes material from the Associated Press and Reuters.