Overview
- Police responded to reports of gunfire at a residence in Erie on Friday and found two women dead outside before the suspect barricaded himself inside the house.
- Special units deployed drones and a robot to assess the building and later entered the home, where they discovered additional victims and the suspect, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
- Authorities say nine people were killed in the attack, including a five-year-old boy, a one-year-old girl and a woman about eight months pregnant.
- Police have said seven of the victims were related to the attacker, have withheld victim identities pending family notifications, and are explicitly not speculating about a motive while they reconstruct events.
- City and state leaders described the shooting as an extraordinary community tragedy and urged residents to use crisis and mental-health resources as investigators continue a criminal and forensic inquiry.