ERIE, Pa. (TCN) —\u00a0A 45-year-old man allegedly killed eight people, including seven relatives, before turning the gun on himself, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Just before 5 p.m. on Oct. 9, two women arrived at a home and began pounding on the door,\u00a0The Associated Press reports<\/a>. Shortly after, a man came outside and allegedly fatally shot them. After police arrived, they also found a deceased 1-year-old and 5-year-old on the first floor, two women and two men deceased in a stairwell, and the alleged shooter deceased on the second floor.<\/p>\n Audio and video evidence examined by investigators allegedly revealed gunshot sounds from inside the home shortly before the two women arrived.<\/p>\n Officers arrived shortly after the gunshots were heard due to ShotSpotter, a controversial artificial intelligence-supported gunshot detection system that takes advantage of a microphone network, according to the AP.<\/p>\n Investigators have not yet found a motive.\u00a0<\/a>According to the Associated Press<\/a>, they will reportedly go through the cellphones of the two women found dead outside the home in addition to conducting interviews with relatives.<\/p>\n Authorities have not released the shooter\u2019s name, according to the AP, but he was allegedly related to seven of the victims. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, and the eighth victim was the pregnant woman\u2019s friend. According to the father of the 1-year-old victim, the alleged shooter was a grandfather and the family\u2019s patriarch.<\/p>\n Nicole Eller, whose best friend was one of the victims, said the alleged shooter\u00a0\u201cwas a good guy, and then he started going downhill with everything,\u201d per the AP.<\/p>\n MORE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. (TCN) —\u00a0A 45-year-old man allegedly killed eight people, including seven relatives, before turning the gun on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-305708","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\/305708","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=305708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}