A police official told CNN that the suspected gunman pulled down his mask and exposed his full face on camera while apparently flirting with an employee at his hostel.

“Among the interviews they’ve been conducting, law enforcement interviewed a female employee at the hostel who said, at one point, she asked the then masked man to lower his mask while flirting with him — which is when the photos released by the New York Police Department today were captured, the official said,” the network said.