{"id":304338,"date":"2026-10-11T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304338\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:26:35","slug":"9-dead-after-shooting-in-northern-pennsylvania-wtop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304338\/","title":{"rendered":"9 dead after shooting in northern Pennsylvania \u2013 WTOP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday. Police said the suspected shooter was also dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,\u201d Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah told a local news station. \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>Lorah declined to provide more details but said the circumstances of the shooting were \u201cdeeply disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro said Saturday he offered his administration\u2019s \u201cfull support\u201d to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Erie posted late Friday night that the suspected shooter was dead and there was no threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Erie is about128 miles (206 kilometers) north of PIttsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<p>GaNun is a corps member for The Associated Press\/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reportforamerica.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report for America<\/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday. Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-304338","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\/304338","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=304338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}