{"id":304074,"date":"2026-10-11T00:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304074\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:12:23","slug":"9-killed-including-2-children-in-pennsylvania-shooting-and-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304074\/","title":{"rendered":"9 killed, including 2 children, in Pennsylvania shooting and standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 Nine people were killed in a shooting and standoff Friday at a home in Erie, a scene that at least one veteran police official called the worst he\u2019s ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began unfolding shortly before 5 p.m. at a house in the city\u2019s East Side, about a mile northwest of downtown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erienewsnow.com\/news\/nine-dead-including-two-children-in-east-erie-shooting-and-standoff\/article_d29b5cb7-d769-49c6-8474-2d94776101ad.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Authorities told Erie News Now<\/a> that officers initially responded to a report of a man firing a handgun outside a home in the 700 block of Perry Street. First responders arrived and found two women shot to death in the street.<\/p>\n<p>The situation turned into a standoff, authorities said, and police and SWAT officers surrounded the home. It wasn\u2019t clear immediately when police and SWAT officers ultimately made entry to the home but when they did, they discovered more victims, including at least two children.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was among the deceased, city officials said, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/police-two-women-dead-in-shooting-on-eries-east-side\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police told Your Erie<\/a> he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah told Erie News Now that the scene is the worst he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cI\u2019m not sure that the city of Erie has ever seen the loss of life and the devastation that we just witnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called the situation devastating and \u201cdeeply disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued late Saturday morning, city and police officials sought to quell rumors that a delay in response might have added to the loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators have determined that all deaths occurred before officers arrived,\u201d officials said. \u201cThe deaths were not the result of any prolonged standoff or delay in police action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that officers arrived at the Perry Street home \u201cwithin minutes\u201d of receiving the alert from ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system. No shots were fired inside the home after police arrived, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said responding officers had limited information when they first arrived, \u201cincluding whether the individual remained inside or posed an ongoing threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey continued assessing the situation and gathering information while seeking a search warrant,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference is scheduled for 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/governorshapiro\/posts\/pfbid0THDtUAg1W9ZFpEJpBifUuHbLAjNUsPz77fxyuFC9Dh1a921UxrAmGsDadJ1xdhcrl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a social media post<\/a> late Saturday morning that he\u2019d spoken with Erie Mayor Daria S. Devlin to offer his administration\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart breaks for this family,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLori and I are praying for their loved ones and the entire Erie community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., whose district includes Erie, said he\u2019s praying for the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay we hold the victims, their families, and those impacted by this tragedy in our hearts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Nine people were killed in a shooting and standoff Friday at a home in Erie, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-304074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304074","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=304074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}