At least 5 killed in shooting outside Pittsburgh; police searching for 2 gunmen

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At least 5 killed in shooting outside Pittsburgh; police searching for 2 gunmenSource: Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/10/multiple-people-reportedly-shot-in-pennsylvania-suburb.html)

At least five people were killed and three others were wounded late Wednesday when gunmen ambushed a backyard party in a Pittsburgh suburb, officials said.
Allegheny County Lt. Andrew Schurman said that four women and one man were killed in the shooting at a house on Franklin Avenue in Wilkinsburg, just east of downtown Pittsburgh. Schurman said four of the victims were killed on the home's back porch. A fifth victim died from her injuries at a local hospital.
Allegheny County police said two injured men were in critical condition early Thursday, while a woman was in stable condition.Schurman described the gathering at the home as "a backyard party or cookout of some sort", but did not elaborate further. He said gunshots came from two distinct locations but police don't believe anyone at the party fired back.

"It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the back door of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard," he said. "They all seemed to get caught on the back porch."
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Police drive past the scene of a deadly shooting on Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Wilikinsburg, Pennsylvania. The shooting at a backyard party killed and injured multiple people on Wednesday night.
Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot five people and critically wounded two others at a backyard cookout, with one attacker using a high-velocity rifle to shoot all the victims in the head, a prosecutor said Thursday.
"The murders were planned. They were calculated," District Attorney Stephen Zappala said.





The gunmen appeared to have targeted one or two of the victims, said Zappala, who said they hadn't ruled out drugs as a motive.
Four women, one of them pregnant, and a man were killed as they rushed toward the back porch and an alleyway to seek cover as a gunman fired a .40-caliber pistol at as many as 15 adults who were playing cards and having a late-night cookout in the yard.
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Gunmen opened fire on a backyard barbecue in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania overnight. (Published 5 hours ago)
That steered the victims toward the rear porch and door of the house, where an accomplice armed with a .762-caliber rifle similar to an AK47 shot them from behind a chain-link fence less than 10 feet from the porch, Zappala said.
The man with the rifle aimed high throughout the barrage of bullets. Four of the dead were found on the tiny back porch.





"They were all head shots," Zappala said.
The dead included three siblings, Brittany Powell, 27, who a cousin said lived at the home; Jerry Shelton, 35; and Chanetta Powell, 25. The other two were Shada Mahone, 26, and Tina Shelton, 3


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(http://www.nbcmiami.com/multimedia/Top-News-238427591.html) "It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the backdoor of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard," said Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County homicide unit. "They all seemed to get caught on the back porch."
Carl Morris and his son, Robert, were getting ready to leave their house across the street when they heard a volley of three shots, a pause, then gunfire lasting more than a minute

Robert Morris said he saw children run onto the small back porch and heard someone scream, "Mommy, Mommy."
"It was terrible," the younger Morris said.

The Morrises said the woman named Brittany lived at the home with a daughter who was about 6 or 7 years old. They said the house was considered a "safe haven" in the neighborhood.
The backyard is about 30 feet by 50 feet. Police said they found one pile of shell casings just outside the yard in an alley, where they believe the .40 caliber pistol was fired, Zappala said. They found more shells along a fence that separates the house from a neighbor's yard, which is where Zappala said the rifle was fired.

Bullet holes were visible Thursday around the porch addition. Tables and chairs, some tipped over, remained in the backyard, signs of a party quickly abandoned.
The suspects fled on foot.