She recalled seeing two handguns and what might have been a .22-caliber rifle.
Still, Riley didn't find it alarming. Roberts said he used them for target practice out in the hills, she recalled.
Benjamin Eshbach said he used to play chess with Roberts when he was general manager of a music theater next door to the gyro shop.
"He was very good," Eshbach said, noting they played on the community chess board in the shop.
Eshbach said Roberts had bought a pistol about a year ago, and used to shoot it in the woods when he went camping.
"A lot of people are thinking he was fixated on things like that. That couldn't be further from the truth," Eshbach said.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Tim Fought, Jonathan J. Cooper, Nigel Duara, and Sarah Skidmore in Portland, and Jeff Barnard in Grants Pass, Ore., along with researcher Rhonda Shafner.
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