4 killed in Pennsylvania shooting spree
NEW YORK: Four people died Friday and several police officers were wounded
in a shooting spree in rural Pennsylvania, officials said.
The shootings, exactly a week after a massacre of 20 children and six
adults at a school in Connecticut, "happened over a large area" near
Geeseytown, in a remote part of the eastern US state, Diane Meling, a
spokeswoman for the Blair County Emergency Management Agency, told AFP.
"Four people were shot dead. That number of four includes the alleged
shooter," she said. "There were several Pennsylvania state troopers injured,
I understand none seriously."
The emergency was over, officials said. "Pennsylvania State Police have
neutralized the active shooter in Franstown Township, Blair County. There is no
longer a threat to residents and visitors to this area from this individual," an
update on the county emergency
management's Facebook page said.
The bloodshed came as a national debate on gun laws went into high gear, with
President Barack Obama saying he would support a new bill seeking a ban on
assault rifles.
In Newtown, Connecticut on December 14 a disturbed local man used such a
rifle to carry out his massacre, before committing suicide.
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