Oct 10 (Reuters) – A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people in Erie, Pennsylvania, including a pregnant woman and two children, then apparently shot himself \u200cto death, authorities said on Saturday at a press conference where they revealed \u200cdetails of the previous evening’s shooting.<\/p>\n
The shooter, who has yet to be identified, died of an apparent self-inflicted \u200bwound before officers arrived on the scene, said Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah.<\/p>\n
“Some scenes stay with you long after you leave them. This is one of those tragic scenes,” Lorah said.<\/p>\n
Police have yet to establish a motive, Lorah said. He said eight of the nine who \u200cdied in the shooting were family \u2060members, and one was a family friend.<\/p>\n
Lorah said after the shooter entered the home, he came out of the house and shot two \u2060women who appeared “distressed” and were pacing back and forth seeking assistance from neighbors.<\/p>\n
Police found the suspect on the second floor of the home on Perry Street, Lorah said.<\/p>\n
Erie Mayor Daria Devlin \u200bsaid the \u200bpolice department “arrived at a horrific scene, faced unimaginable \u200bcircumstances, and carried out their duties \u200cwith courage and professionalism.”<\/p>\n
“They too are members of this community, and they too will carry the weight of what happened last night,” she said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said in a statement on X that he had spoken with Mayor Devlin and had offered support following “the tragic mass shooting.”<\/p>\n
Shapiro has long advocated for “common sense gun safety,” and pushed the \u200cPennsylvania General Assembly in 2024 to pass gun \u200breforms, including universal background checks and restrictions on ghost \u200bguns, which are homemade guns that \u200black serial numbers and cannot be traced. Several of Shapiro’s proposals have \u200cstalled in the state legislature.<\/p>\n
There have been \u200bmore than 400 mass \u200bshootings in the US in 2026, according to data compiled by Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more \u200bpeople are shot, excluding the \u200cshooter. The last recorded mass shootings in Pennsylvania took place in July in \u200bPhiladelphia, according to the data.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Ann Saphir in San Francisco, Erin Banco \u200bin New York; Editing by David Gregorio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 10 (Reuters) – A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people in Erie, Pennsylvania, including a pregnant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-304606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304606","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=304606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}