At Least 4 Dead In Gym Shooting Near Pittsburgh

[Whisper]

At Least 4 Dead In Gym Shooting Near Pittsburgh
Witness Says She Heard 12-15 Gunshots

POSTED: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 --

A shooting at a suburban health club has left four or five people dead, including the shooter, news reports say.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper reported that a man carrying a duffel bag walked near the rear door of a L.A. Fitness center in Collier, Pa., Tuesday evening and opened fire, killing four or five people and wounding as many as 11.

Allegheny County police told The Associated Press a person called them Tuesday evening and said someone was shooting inside.

A witness told the Post-Gazette she was in an exercise class when a man came in a back door and started shooting. Ashley Ogordowski says a friend of hers was among the wounded.

Gym member Lauren Dooley tells the Post-Gazette she heard 12 to 15 shots.

Perry Calabro was playing racquetball inside. He says when the shooting began "everybody started running."

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20283920/detail.html

[Coyote]

I’d just heard about this myself and heard that five people had been killed, and up to 15 injured. They said a middle-aged white man walked into a class at the gym with about 30 women in it, turned off the lights, and opened fire. I’ll be interested to hear updates on this one.

[Whisper]

Yeah its still breaking,more info will trickle out

[Whisper]

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5 die in gym shooting near Pittsburgh

(CNN) -- A shooting at an LA Fitness gym outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killed five people and wounded as many as 15 on Tuesday, a local official said.

Authorities at the scene of a shooting at an LA Fitness gym.
The shooter is among the fatalities, said Gary Vituccio, manager of Collier Township.

Allegheny General Hospital reported receiving two wounded patients at its trauma center, Mercy Hospital had six and St. Clair had one. No other details were immediately available.

Perry Calabro of nearby Bridgeville said he was between racquetball games at the gym when he suddenly heard screaming and multiple gunshots. He said he ran out and didn't see the gunman or others.

Witnesses told CNN affiliate WTAE that a man unrecognized by the gym's staff shot people in a Latin dance class.

A witness identified as Nicole told WTAE that about 30 women were in the class when "a middle-aged white male walked into the class. He had a big gym bag."

"He looked out of place in a class full of women," according to the witness, who told WTAE the man put down the bag, turned off the lights and opened fire

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/04/pen...ing/index.html

[Nell]

That is why you shouldn't work out.

[katyk]

The guy's blog:

http://www.georgesodini.com/20090804.htm

It's pretty heavy, scary shit. Didn't anyone see this before or was he really that isolated?

[MissKerosene]

Fucking hell! I just read that blog and it is chilling! How the hell does this stuff just not get noticed and reported??

[Jaded]

Morbid has this one on the front page....

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/08/...ness-massacre/

[Sister Iroz]

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. -- An armed man strolled to the back of an exercise class at a health club in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday night and then pulled out two guns and started spraying bullets, leaving four people dead, including himself, and injuring at least 10 others, police and a hospital said.

"He did not say anything," Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said. "He walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going."

Area hospitals were treating the other victims, including two in fair condition.

The shooting was at the L.A. Fitness Center in Bridgeville, a community of about 5,000 residents not far from downtown Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh International Airport.

Debi Wozniak, of Dormont, a suburb of Pittsburgh, is a regular at the weekly Latin impact dance exercise class. She was running late Tuesday night and didn't make it, but she said her sister, Joann Gazzam, was in the class.

Gazzam told Wozniak that a man came in through the glass double doors at the exercise room's entrance. He walked to the back of the room near some weights and set down a bag, fumbled with it for a few minutes and came up with what Gazzam said were apparently two guns and began shooting.

Gazzam told Wozniak that several people appeared to be wounded, including the instructor, and that it was apparent that four people were dead and that the gunman had killed himself.

"She told me, 'Debi, I seen everything. Oh, my God, I seen everything. I seen him pull out the guns,"' Wozniak said.

Moffatt said police recovered two guns from the scene. He would not discuss a possible motive for the shooting, whose victims hadn't been identified.

"As you can imagine in a fitness club, they don't have identification on them," he said.

UPMC Mercy Hospital said five critically injured women were taken there. Allegheny General Hospital said it had two women in fair condition with gunshot wounds.

St. Clair Hospital said one of the victims of the shooting died there. Spokesman Rich Sieber said the woman was shot in the chest. He said two other victims were taken to his hospital, both in stable condition.

The fitness center, which opened last year, is in a strip mall called the Great Southern Shopping Center, where a few businesses were destroyed in a 2006 fire. It said in a statement: "Each of us in the LA Fitness family are shocked and saddened by the senseless acts of violence that took place."

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?se...rticle-6948785

[Morbid]

This is in the forums already as well as the Front Page.