State police say at least five people were killed and one other is wounded after a shooting at car wash in Melcroft, PA. Authorities are still investigating if the shooter was among those found at the scene. USA TODAY
Five people were killed and another was wounded Sunday in a shooting rampage in a small town 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State Police said.
Police said four people died at the scene and one died after being rushed to a hospital. The shootings took place at a car wash in Melcroft at about 3 a.m. ET. The facts were still being sorted out, but it was possible the shooter was among the victims, police said.
"There is no threat to the community, no imminent danger," police said in a statement to USA TODAY. The identity of the victims, three men and two women, were not immediately available, police said.
"It's a pretty intense scene, we'll say that," Trooper Robert Broadwater, spokesman for the State Police, told the Uniontown Herald-Standard.
Broadwater said the victims appeared to be in their 20s and 30s. Multiple weapons were found at the scene, he said.
Broadwater told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that no motive for the shooting had been determined and that there was no immediate indication of drug activity. He said two bodies were found in a pickup and two others on the car wash parking lot.
The media outlet's website described a "chaotic" scene after word spread through the rural community and neighbors, friends and family members rushed to the area.
Melcroft is an unincorporated area of Fayette County, which borders Maryland and West Virginia.
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