Shooting at Airbnb party in Pittsburgh leaves 2 dead, 9 injured
More than 90 rounds were fired inside the house, prompting some partygoers to jump out of windows, Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott E. Schubert said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon.
“It was a very chaotic scene. You had people who were fleeing — you know, just trying to get out of there,” Schubert said.
Many of the partygoers were underage, and one victim was as young as 14 years old, Schubert said. Police believe there was more than one shooter and do not yet have anyone in custody, he added. He asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact law enforcement.
A video from the party, verified by The Washington Post, showed partygoers packed inside the home when a man began shouting, “He got a gun! … We gotta go! We gotta go!”
With little to no light, people tried to wedge their way through the standing-room-only crowd. Midway through the video, the sound of gunfire can be heard, and the shouts turned into screams as panicked partygoers searched for an exit.
On Sunday, Schubert said there was an “altercation” at the party and that shortly afterward gunshots were fired both inside and outside the house, “potentially back and forth.”
Two boys under age 18 were killed in the shooting, police said. Officers and emergency workers took some victims to hospitals, while others arrived on their own. Police said other injuries included broken bones and cuts suffered by people who tried to flee the scene.
A spokesman for the Allegheny Health Network confirmed Sunday that seven victims had been taken to Allegheny General Hospital with gunshot wounds and other injuries. He did not provide names or details about their conditions.
Two other victims were taken to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center facility, a UPMC representative said.
Police initially said in a statement that there were 11 gunshot victims, including the two who died, but Schubert said later on Sunday that there were 10. Several young people fled the area on foot and in vehicles.
“This is our priority, and we’re not going to sleep until we get who did this,” Schubert said. “This shouldn’t have happened and we’re sick about it, and we’re going to do everything we can to get those responsible for it.”
Two cans of Mike’s Hard Lemonade and one Air Jordan sneaker lying in the street near the house, on Suismon Street and Madison Avenue, were the only signs of the party in what is typically a quiet working-class neighborhood of mostly brick rowhouses.
The rest of the scene appeared grim: Broken glass littered the sidewalks near the home, and three of its windows — two to the side and…
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