The shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania happened on Friday, according to state officials.<\/p>\n
Published On 10 Oct 202610 Oct 2026<\/p>\n
Nine people were killed Friday in a shooting in the US state of Pennsylvania, according to Governor Josh Shapiro. Police said the suspected shooter was among the nine dead.<\/p>\n
Local media reported that two children were also among those killed at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, which is 188 kilometres (117 miles) north of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
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Police in the city of Erie were called Friday around 5:00pm local time (21:00 GMT) to reports of shots fired and discovered two women dead in the street, the Erie News Now outlet said.<\/p>\n
The attacker barricaded himself inside the home as police surrounded the building and ordered him to exit.<\/p>\n
More gunshots were heard during the standoff, Erie News Now reported.<\/p>\n
When police eventually entered the building, they found several more victims around the home, including the two children. The deceased attacker had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the outlet said, citing police.<\/p>\n
Erie News Now said that police officers who responded to the scene were being offered counselling over the horrifying incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,\u201d Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah told a local news station on Saturday. \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
Lorah declined to provide more details but said the circumstances of the shooting were \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shapiro said Saturday he offered his administration\u2019s \u201cfull support\u201d to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.<\/p>\n
Mass shootings occur frequently in the United States, where guns vastly outnumber the population and efforts to increase firearm restrictions face steep political and legal hurdles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania happened on Friday, according to state officials. Published On 10 Oct 202610 Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,758,139,28,30,29,1480],"class_list":["post-304228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304228","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=304228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}