A shooting at a backyard barbecue in the northeastern US state of Pennsylvania has left five people dead, and at least two suspects are still on the run, police said yesterday.
Four of the victims — three women and one man — died at the scene while another woman succumbed to her wounds in hospital, police said in a statement.
Two men are in critical condition and a woman is in stable condition following the incident that unfolded at a home late on Wednesday in the town of Wilkinsburg, they said.
“The ballistic evidence on the scene leads police to believe that two different weapons were discharged from two different people,” the statement said.
No one has been taken into custody and police were urging witnesses to come forward to aid their investigation, which they said was still in its preliminary stage.
Wilkinsburg is about 10km east of the city of Pittsburgh.
Police said shots were fired from an alley and that when partygoers tried to seek cover in the home, someone on the side or backyard adjacent to the residence fired at the back porch, where all four deaths occurred.
Allegheny County Police Lieutenant Andrew Schurman told reporters that police do not believe that anyone in the backyard or at the party fired back during the shooting.
“We’re still trying to identify all the victims and what their connection is to the party,” he said.
Schurman added that the suspects were on foot at the time of the shooting but that it was unclear how they fled the scene.
According to CBS affiliate KDKA-TV, neighbors reported hearing 30 to 40 shots ring out.
Emergency dispatchers said seven ambulances were called to the chaotic scene, according to local broadcaster WPXI.
Neighborhood resident Kayla Alexander told WPXI that the street where the shooting occurred is normally quiet and filled with children playing.
Local media footage from the scene showed a massive police presence and streets blocked off as visibly distraught groups of onlookers wept and hugged.
WPXI reported that some said they had lost family members.
“My baby! My baby!” one woman at the scene could be heard screaming according to WTAE-TV Pittsburgh.
Multiple shell casings littered the ground in the alley as detectives scoured the scene, the broadcaster reported.
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