ERIE, Penn. –<\/p>\n
Eight people, including two children, were killed Friday in a mass shooting in a residential area of Erie, Pennsylvania, authorities said. The suspected gunman is also dead.<\/p>\n
Erie police said the victims included a 1-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, four women \u2014 one of them pregnant \u2014 and two young men. The suspected shooter was related to seven of the eight victims, police said. No names have been released.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Perry Street at around 5 p.m. Friday after witnesses reported seeing a man firing a gun before he entered a home.<\/p>\n
Officials said two women were found dead in the street, and more victims were found dead inside the home. Police said that the suspect was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
\u201cEight of those victims were related to each other,\u201d Erie Police Chief Richard Lorah said in a news conference Saturday afternoon. \u201cI think it\u2019s too soon to talk about motive, but obviously everyone is family who is there and one family friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
All of the deaths happened before officers arrived on scene, Lorah disclosed. There was no additional gunfire from responding officers, the chief said, and loud bangs that residents heard were flash-bangs used by the tactical team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we arrived on scene, we did not hear a gunshot,\u201d Lorah said. \u201cWe did not hear a cry for help. We did not see movement inside. Had any of those been heard, we would\u2019ve made entrance immediately. Those officers were met with an eerie silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lorah said the motive remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no words that can adequately express the magnitude of the loss of life here,\u201d he said. \u201cOut of respect for the victims and their loved ones, I will not discuss the specific details of what our officers encountered today. Our investigators are working diligently as we speak to establish the full circumstances of what occurred. We will not speculate about a motive or any information that could compromise this investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement Saturday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said that his \u201cheart breaks for this family. Lori and I are praying for their loved ones and the entire Erie community.\u201d<\/p>\n
And in a joint statement, the city of Erie and Erie Mayor Daria Devlin said that local officials wanted \u201cto assure the public that the situation has been contained.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and everyone impacted by tonight\u2019s tragedy,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: This story has been updated to reflect that the total number of people dead includes the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Penn. – Eight people, including two children, were killed Friday in a mass shooting in a residential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-304184","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\/304184","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=304184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}