Suspects sought after 2 killed in mass shooting at Pittsburgh Airbnb house party
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Via: perrie-halpern • 2 years ago • 11 commentsBy: Cristian Santana, Henry Austin and Doha Madani
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Two young men were killed and at least nine others injured in a mass shooting early Sunday in Pittsburgh, police said.
The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. during a party at a short-term rental property in the city's North Side, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police said in a news release. Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert said multiple shooters were suspected due to different shell casings found at the scene, NBC affiliate WPXI reported.
The two people killed in the incident were juveniles and were not identified by police. Eight others were shot and five more sustained injuries not related to gunshots in the incident, according to police.
The party was attended by as many as 200 people, many of whom were underage, police added. A shotspotter, an automated detection system that alerts law enforcement to gunshots, prompted the initial police response.
Officials investigating mass shooting at Pittsburgh party that left 2 dead, multiple injured
"As many as 50 rounds were fired inside, prompting some partygoers to jump out the windows, sustaining injuries such as broken bones and lacerations," police said. "Several more shots were fired outside the home."
As officers arrived at the scene, shots were heard "and several young people were observed fleeing the area on foot and by vehicle," police said.
Evidence was being processed at as many as eight separate crime scenes and detectives from the bureau's major crimes unit were speaking to witnesses and reviewing video footage, police added.
Airbnb condemned the shooting in a statement Sunday, offering the company's condolences to the families of the victims. The short-term rental business has a strict ban on parties, it said, and is taking action against the person who booked the space.
"The booking guest has been issued a lifetime ban from Airbnb and we will be considering all legal options to hold this person accountable," the company said.
Airbnb said it was working with authorities and "we hope the people responsible for this bloodshed will be found quickly."
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My great-uncle used to work in my father's factory, and when I would work there during Siummer vacations I would hear him say every day "Another day, another dollar." When I read the news these days on Microsoft Bing News and USA Today and npr, and take note of the gun violence reported every single day, it makes me think of my great-uncle.
I knew others who used to say environment is everything. Normal "young people" don't use guns on one another. I'll add the photos when the guilty are captured.
If normal "young people" don't use guns on one another, then there seems to be too many "abnormal young people" around, don't you think? What disturbs me even more is that the symptoms appear to have been leaking a lot into Canada lately.
Far too many.
What disturbs me even more is that the symptoms appear to have been leaking a lot into Canada lately.
Really?
I'm afraid so. I check the CTV (Canada Television Network) news every day and I'm seeing a lot more reports about shootings than I remember from when I was stiil there. There seems to be about one every couple of weeks or so now.
So what's your solution?
With a shared border of 5,525 miles and a gun ecstatic society to the south, there may not be a solution.
Quite right Buzz. It is an "Abnormal Young People" problem (also abnormal older people). It is not a gun problem. The implements used are irrelevant.The problem is a lack of respect for human life in those abnormal people. Fix that and you remove the problem.
Good to see you on board, Rock. Hope all is well.
Yes, guns are not a necessity for the purpose of killing and maiming others - bows and arrows, crossbows, garroting can also do the tirick, and machetes, cleavers, knives, as well, although at least it is easier to defend oneself from them than from a gun. But if guns are not a problem, then why aren't governments doing more to protect innocent people from "Abnormal Young People"? Could it be because there is really no effective way to do so? Is it because parents tend to be protective of their young ones no matter how dangerous their young ones are? Or is it because of what a doctor who was a friend of my father once told him, which was that the only reason the insane are locked up and we're out here is because we're the majority.
Doing much better. Mom/Grandma is getting more mobile.
Millions more people have been killed with those weapons than with firearms. It is NOT easier to defend yourself from those weapons, particularly if you are small or old, unless you have a gun. If there were no guns, large muscular males who are willing to shed blood would rule over everyone else. Who would stop them without being armed with a gun?
Being abnormal is not necessarily a criminal act. Don't know about China, but here and in Canada the government is not allowed to lock people up or kill them (the only real ways to protect the innocent from abnormal young people) unless it can be proven that such people have actually committed a crime. The system is set up to restrict government far more than to restrict the right of individual people to be armed because government is a far more dangerous weapon than any firearm ever made, no matter who is holding it.
In China gun violence isn't a problem since the only people who have guns are the military, special SWAT police (ordinary police do not carry guns), and money delivery van guards (bank guards do not have guns).
From what you said, it seems to me that massive gun violence in America will NEVER be controlled. I read yesterday that there have been 160 mass shootings in America so far in 2022.