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YEREVAN, MARCH 9, ARMENPRESS. Allegheny County Police say five people are dead, three others were wounded and police are looking for two gunmen after a shooting spree at a party on March 9 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. “Armenpress” reports citing CBS.
The incident happened around 10:55 p.m. in the 1300-block of Franklin Avenue during some sort of party or cookout in the backyard. Police were called to the scene for a report of shots fired.
According to Allegheny County Police Lt. Andrew Schurman, four people were found dead at the scene, four other victims were rushed to local hospitals where one of them was pronounced dead.
The victims have not yet been identified, but police say of the victims who were killed, three were women and the other was a man.
All four were found dead on the back porch.
The victim who died at the hospital was a woman.
Also, of the victims who were wounded, two men are in critical condition and a woman is in stable condition.
According to police, ballistic evidence at the scene indicates that possibly “two different weapons were discharged by two different people.”
Authorities are looking for two gunmen.
“There is ballistic evidence that would lead us to believe there is at least two people that discharged weapons into a backyard party or a cookout of some sort at the residence,” said Lt. Schurman. “We do not believe, at this point, anybody that was in that backyard or an attendee of the party fired weapons in return.”