{"id":303794,"date":"2026-10-10T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303794\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:34:37","slug":"nine-dead-including-children-in-erie-pennsylvania-home-shooting-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303794\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine dead, including children in Erie, Pennsylvania home shooting :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people died in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, Friday night, including the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n<p>A man went into a home and shot multiple people before taking his own life, according to Erie police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers responded to the home on Perry Street around 5 p.m. on Friday, they found two women lying dead in the street outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooter was inside and after a standoff with police, the man took his own life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five others, including children, were found dead inside the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses also told police they saw the person firing shots before entering the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Erie police chief Rick Lorah described the scene as one of the most difficult and heartbreaking scenes he has encountered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The loss of life is devastating, and the circumstances we are working through are deeply disturbing. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and everyone affected by this tragedy,&#8221; said Lorah.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people died in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, Friday night, including the suspected shooter. A man went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,11374,28,220],"class_list":["post-303794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mass-shooting","tag-pennsylvania","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}