SEBRING, Fla. — The man accused of killing five people in a Sebring bank drew suspicions about his behavioral health as far back as 2014. 

Zephen Xaver had dreamed of hurting classmates in high school and had long been fascinated with killing, police and a former girlfriend said Thursday.

The slayings did not appear to be part of a robbery, and Zephen Xaver had no apparent connection to the SunTrust branch or the four employees and one customer who were killed Wednesday, police said.

“We believe it was a random act,” Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund said Thursday at a news conference. “Aside from perhaps driving by and seeing it was a bank, we have no known evidence that he targeted this bank for any particular reason.”

Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund cited the amendment at a Thursday news conference to explain why authorities would not release the names of three of Wednesday's shooting victims. 

Hoglund and the family of one of those women later released the information, as did the husband of one of the victims. One name remains unknown to the public.

Police have charged Zephen Xaver, 21, with five counts of premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of four employees and a customer at a branch of the SunTrust bank in Sebring, a tourist and retirement city of 10,000 south of Orlando. 

Authorities said a sixth person, a bank employee who was in the back break room, was able to escape and call 911 after hearing the initial gunshots. 

Hoglund identified two victims: customer Cynthia Watson, 65; and one employee: 55-year-old Marisol Lopez. Later he and the family identified a third victim as 38-year-old Ana Pinon Willliams, a mother of seven.

Later Thursday we learned a fourth name, 31-year-old Jessica Montague, whose husband Jermaine spoke to the Associated Press. One victim's name remains unreleased by authorities, citing privacy concerns under a Florida constitutional amendment similar to "Marsy's Law."

Xaver remains in jail without bond.

Xaver refused to surrender and would not allow officers to reach the victims, Hoglund said. After more than an hour of negotiations, a SWAT team used an armored vehicle to break through the front doors. Xaver was found in a back office, and all the victims were dead, the chief said.

On Thursday, an Indiana police department released a 2014 report in which Xaver, then 16, said he had dreams of hurting other students in a classroom.

The report from the Bremen Police Department said Bremen High School Principal Bruce Jennings contacted police on Feb. 20, 2014, after Xaver reported having the dream the previous night and again during a nap at school. The report said Xaver’s mother agreed to take him to a behavioral health center. Police took no further action.

Authorities also released log entries of other incidents involving Xaver, including one in March 2017, when Michigan State Police advised that a girl was receiving messages from Xaver that indicated he was “possibly thinking of suicide by cop and taking hostages.”

Alex Gerlach, who identified herself as Xaver’s former girlfriend, said he’s long been fascinated with the idea of killing, but no one took her warnings about him seriously. For some reason, he “always hated people and wanted everybody to die,” Gerlach told WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana, near his former home in Plymouth, Indiana.

“He got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in his class, and he’s been threatening this for so long, and he’s been having dreams about it and everything,” she said. “Every single person I’ve told has not taken it seriously, and it’s very unfortunate that it had to come to this.”