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Four dead, gunman hospitalized in Pennsylvania car wash shooting

John Bacon
USA TODAY
An officer stands guard as people comfort each other near the scene of a fatal shooting at a car wash in Melcroft, Pa., on Jan. 28, 2018.

Four people were killed and two were wounded Sunday in a shooting rampage in a small town 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State Police said.

Police said the shooting took place at a car wash in Melcroft at about 3 a.m. ET. Police said the suspected shooter, 28-year-old Timothy O’Brien Smith, was gravely injured and not expected to survive.

Authorities had earlier said five were killed and one wounded in the rampage, but they later said Smith was hospitalized and on life support.

"There is no threat to the community, no imminent danger," police said in a statement to USA TODAY. The identity of the victims, three men and two women, were not immediately available, police said.

"It's a pretty intense scene, we'll say that," Trooper Robert Broadwater, spokesman for the State Police, told the Uniontown Herald-Standard

 

Broadwater told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that two bodies were found in a pickup and two others on the car wash parking lot.

WPXI-TV reported that Smith shot the victims with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun.

Family members said the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute, and that two of the victims were brother and sister.

Police identified the victims as: William Porterfield, 27, Chelsie Cline, 25, Seth Cline, 21, and Courtney Snyder, 23. 

 

An unidentified woman who took cover in one of the vehicles suffered minor injuries from broken glass. 

Officials said Smith sustained a gunshot wound to the head.  

Melcroft is an unincorporated area of Fayette County, which borders Maryland and West Virginia.

In this frame from video, police work at the scene of a fatal shooting at a car wash in Melcroft, Pa. on Jan. 28, 2018.
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