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The house in Erie that was the scene of a mass shooting that left 10 people dead has been torn down.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, crews with Empire Excavation demolished the home on 722 Perry Street.<\/p>\n
On October 9, the 45-year-old gunman killed seven of his family members, an unborn child, and a family friend before taking his own life.<\/p>\n
On the day of the shooting, Dennis Flippin went to check on the two women who were shot outside of the home.<\/p>\n
“I was on scene,” said Flippin. “I went and checked the one girl, and she didn’t have a pulse.”<\/p>\n
Flippin said when he went to check on the other victim, he had a run in with the shooter.<\/p>\n
“He came out of the house and pointed his gun at me,” said Flippin. “I guess he thought about it. He did enough damage, so he went back into the house.”<\/p>\n
Once all of the debris is cleared from the scene, the city will turn the property into a grass lot.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Flippin hopes the demolition can help the neighborhood heal.<\/p>\n
“It’s probably a relief to the people in the area that were on scene, because there was tons and tons of people out here,” said Flippin. “That’s how I feel about that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The house in Erie that was the scene of a mass shooting that left 10 people dead has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40777,136,138,137,120702,758,11374],"class_list":["post-316363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-demolition","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-family-tragedy","tag-gun-violence","tag-mass-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316363","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=316363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}