A shooting in a residential area of a city in northern Pennsylvania left nine people dead, including two children, a pregnant woman, and the suspected attacker, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The police chief of the city of Erie, Rick Lorah, said that the attacker, a 45-year-old man, was related to seven of the victims of Friday’s shooting, while 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 house shortly before 5 in the afternoon and knocking on the door, he said. The attacker then came out and shot them before going back inside.<\/p>\n
Police arrived and found 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 attacker.<\/p>\n
“Lorah declined to speak about the reason, but said investigators would speak with other relatives and examine the cell phones of the women who were killed outside the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew that something was happening in that house,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to find out what it is about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like it in 28 years in the Police\u201d<\/p>\n
Officers arrived within minutes after receiving an alert through ShotSpotter, a controversial gunshot detection system that relies on artificial intelligence and a network of microphones to identify gunfire. The city stated in a release that no additional shots were fired after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sounds heard during the police response, which could have been mistaken for gunshots, were flashbang grenades related to the tactical response of law enforcement,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven’t seen anything like this in my more than 28 years (in the Police),\u201d Lorah told a local news outlet earlier in the day. \u201cI’m not sure the city of Erie has ever seen the loss of life and devastation that we have just witnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Governor Josh Shapiro said he offered the \u201cfull support\u201d of his administration to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.\u00a0Erie is about 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting in a residential area of a city in northern Pennsylvania left nine people dead, including two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,9619,15607,4871,31905],"class_list":["post-304552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-is","tag-shooter","tag-the","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304552","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=304552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}