A shooting in a residential area of Erie, Pa., left eight people dead including two children and a pregnant woman, police said Saturday. The gunman was also found dead. <\/p>\n
Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said the assailant, a 45-year-old man, was related to seven of the victims in Friday\u2019s shooting, and the eighth was a friend of the pregnant woman.<\/p>\n
Video and audio evidence recovered by investigators showed two \u201cdistressed\u201d women arriving at the home shortly before 5 p.m. and pounding on the door, he said. The gunman then came out and shot them before returning inside.<\/p>\n
Police arrived to find the two women dead outside. Inside they found the bodies of a 5-year-old boy, a 1-year-old girl, two more women, two young men and the shooter.<\/p>\n
Lorah declined to discuss motive but said investigators would talk to other relatives and examine the cellphones of the women who were killed outside the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew something was going on at that house,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to figure out what that is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officers are said to have arrived within minutes of receiving an alert via ShotSpotter, a controversial gunshot detection system that relies on artificial intelligence and a network of microphones to identify gunshots. The city said in a statement that no shots were fired after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSounds heard during the police response that may have been mistaken for gunfire were flash bangs associated with law enforcement\u2019s tactical response,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,\u201d Lorah told a local news station earlier in the day. \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
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he offered his administration\u2019s \u201cfull support\u201d to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.<\/p>\n
Erie is about 128 miles north of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n
GaNun writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting in a residential area of Erie, Pa., left eight people dead including two children and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4784,136,138,93634,137,125006,442,104848,105,15342,29531,35425,206,5858,7063,15607,220],"class_list":["post-304150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-administration","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-mayor-daria-devlin","tag-erie-news","tag-full-support","tag-gov-josh-shapiro","tag-late-friday-night","tag-life","tag-loss","tag-northern-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-city","tag-police","tag-public","tag-saturday","tag-shooter","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304150","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=304150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}