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Williamsport Shootings
Williamsport Shootings - Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 12:25PM EST
Reported by: Joe Holden
Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 @12:25am EST
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Williamsport police and State troopers take photographs and gather up evidence from one of four crime scenes.
One person was shot and killed outside a bar. In another part of town, two men were shot and rushed to the hospital. Michael stewart, a shooting victim says a kid that was standing outside just pulled out a gun and just started shooting at us.
Thirty-one year old Michael Stewart of Williamsport was hit in the left side just above his waist. He and a friend were wounded outside this Unimart on High Street. The father of two says he was face to face with the gunman.
Michael Stewart says actually i was kinda like shocked. I could not say what happened i was just looking at him. I saw his face and he turned around and ran. I ran over to rob to see what happened to him. He said he was shot in the stomach.
Police say the violence erupted before eleven Friday night. Shots were fired outside a home on Adams Avenue. Two men where hit. A few blocks away, one person was gunned down in the parking lot of Mcnamee's cafe on Franklin Street. Police say the victim was found dead near a pickup truck. All this before the gunfire at the Unimart.
Joe Garrisonof WBRE News says Williamsport police say the fourth location was near the intersection of Third Avenue and Memorial Avenue in Williamsport.
Police say the shootings happened just a few minutes from one another, and they are working hard to determine if the shootings were in fact related.
Chief Gary Whiteman of the Williamsport police deaprtment says it is very unusual, frightenly unusual, you have to wonder as the investigation goes if we won't pull something that leads us on a different path than we are thinking right now.
News traveled fast. With the shooter still at large, employees at this Sheetz Store in nearby Loyalsock Township locked the doors. It was safety first, customers second.
Bill Albertson, a would-be customer said i don't blame them i guess, with ladies in there, not much you can do about it. It's a shame. | | |
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