MELCROFT, Pa. (AP) – Five people were found dead early Sunday at a car wash in suburban Pennsylvania and police say they have no motive yet for the shooting.

The shooting at Ed’s Car Wash occurred shortly before 3 a.m. in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The victims were identified as three men and two women, but their names and further information about them was not immediately disclosed. One person was injured.

Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while another died at a hospital, according to a state trooper. He said two of the victims were found inside a pickup truck and two others were found outside in the car wash’s parking lot.

An injured person was taken to a hospital, but it’s not clear if that person was shot, state police said. Further information about that person was not released.

Authorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found.

Three vehicles were towed from the location. Two were pickup trucks — including the one that two of the victims were found in — and the other was a sedan. </s> MELCROFT, Pa. (AP) — State police say three men and two women have been found dead in a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash.

The shooting occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.

Police said Sunday they have no motive yet for the deadly shooting. Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while another died at a hospital.

Two victims died inside a vehicle and two were found outside in the car wash’s parking lot.

An injured person was taken to a hospital. Authorities say it’s not clear if that person was shot. Details on that person’s condition were not immediately released.

Authorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found at the scene.

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Police are focusing on phone records to try to piece together how a group of friends wound up at a Pennsylvania self-serve car wash in the early morning hours, where a gunman lying in wait killed four and injured one who managed to hide.

The shooter, 28-year-old Timothy Smith, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the Sunday shooting at Ed's Car Wash in Melcroft, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. He is on life support and isn't expected to survive.

Victim family members say Smith was a jealous ex-boyfriend of victim Chelsie Cline.

Vicki Snyder says Smith was always polite. She says he lived at home and helped out with a sister who used a wheelchair after a car accident a few years ago.

Family members of the victims of a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash say the man suspected of gunning down four people was driven by jealousy.

State police say 28-year-old Timothy Smith opened fire early Sunday morning at Ed's Car Wash in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.

Twenty-seven-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Courtney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline were all killed.

Smith was on life support Sunday and not expected to survive after suffering a gunshot wound to his head. State police say it's possible that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.

Authorities would not reveal how Smith knew the victims, but Chelsie Cline's half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Smith had developed an obsession with Cline.

People comfort each other at the scene where a shooter killed four people Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, outside Ed's Carwash in Saltlick Township, Fayette County, Pa. A jealous ex-boyfriend opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to police and the wife of one of the victims. Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support and not expected to survive after shooting himself in the head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

People comfort each other as they walk towards the scene where a shooter killed four people Sunday morning, Jan. 28, 2018, outside Ed's Carwash in Saltlick Township, Fayette County. A jealous ex-boyfriend opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to police and the wife of one of the victims. Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support and not expected to survive after shooting himself in the head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

An official walks along a line of tow trucks on Indian Creek Valley Road as they remove three vehicles from a scene where a shooter killed four people Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, outside Ed's Carwash in Saltlick Township, Fayette County, Pa. A jealous ex-boyfriend opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to police and the wife of one of the victims. Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support and not expected to survive after shooting himself in the head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

A coroner walks under the police tape at the scene where a shooter killed four people Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, outside Ed's Carwash in Saltlick Township, Fayette County. A jealous ex-boyfriend opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to police and the wife of one of the victims. Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support and not expected to survive after shooting himself in the head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

People hug at the scene where a shooter killed four people Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, outside Ed's Carwash in Saltlick Township, Fayette County, Pa. A jealous ex-boyfriend opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to police and the wife of one of the victims. Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support and not expected to survive after shooting himself in the head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) </s> MELCROFT, Pa. (CBSNews) — Five people were killed during a shooting at a car wash in suburban Pennsylvania on Sunday (Jan. 28) and police said they have not identified a motive for the killings. The shooting at Ed’s Car Wash occurred shortly before 3 a.m. in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The victims were identified as three men and two women, but further information about them was not immediately disclosed. One person was injured.

Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while another died at a hospital, according to a state trooper. He said two of the victims were found inside a pickup truck and two others were found outside in the car wash’s parking lot.

An injured person was taken to a hospital, but it’s not clear if that person was shot, state police said. Further information about that person was not released.

CBS Pittsburgh’s Ross Guidotti reports that dozens of spent shell casings were littered around the crime scene on Sunday morning.

State Police Trooper Robert Broadwater said the victims have not yet been identified, CBS Pittsburgh reports. Authorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found.

A woman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that her 29-year-old husband, William Scott Porterfield, was among the victims.

Family members of the victims told WPXI-TV the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute, and claim the shooter was a man who used to date one of the victims.

Ed Bukovac, who owns the car wash, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a neighbor called him around 4 a.m. Sunday and said something was wrong at his business. Bukovac said police were on the scene by the time he arrived and that he had few other details about what happened.

A man who lives nearby told the newspaper that he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.

Three vehicles were towed from the location. Two were pickup trucks — including the one that two of the victims were found in — and the other was a sedan. </s> MELCROFT, Pa. (AP) – State police say at least five people were killed in a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash.

WPXI-TV reports the shooting occurred around 2:45 a.m. Sunday in Melcroft.

Melcroft is about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh

The victims were identified only as three men and two women. At least one other person was wounded and was taken to a hospital, but further details on that person’s condition were not immediately released.

Authorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found at the scene.

A motive for the shooting remains under investigation. </s> Five people were found dead early Sunday at a car wash in suburban Pennsylvania and police say they have no motive yet for the shooting, though family members of the victims say a domestic dispute spurred the violence.

The shooting at Ed’s Car Wash occurred shortly before 3 a.m. in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. The victims were identified only as three men and two women in their 20s and 30s. One person was injured.

Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene in Fayette County, while another died at a hospital, according to Trooper Robert Broadwater. He said two of the victims were found inside a pickup truck and two others were found outside in the car wash’s parking lot.

“We’re not sure exactly what occurred,” Broadwater told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “Trying to investigate why this happened and how it happened.”

An injured person was taken to a hospital, but it’s not clear if that person was shot, state police said. Further information about that person was not released.

Authorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found. A woman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that her 29-year-old husband was among the victims, but authorities say they have not confirmed the identities of any victims.

Family members of the victims told WPXI-TV that the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute. They claim the shooter was a man who used to date one of the victims.

Ed Bukovac, who owns the car wash, told the Tribune-Review that a neighbor called him around 4 a.m. Sunday and said something was wrong at his business. Bukovac said police were on the scene by the time he arrived and that he had few other details about what happened.

A man who lives nearby told the newspaper that he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.

Three vehicles were towed from the location. Two were pickup trucks — including the one that two of the victims were found in — and the other was a sedan. </s> MELCROFT, Pa. — The Latest on the deadly shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash (all times local):

Police are focusing on phone records to try to piece together how a group of friends wound up at a Pennsylvania self-serve car wash in the early morning hours, where a gunman lying in wait killed four and injured one who managed to hide.

The shooter, 28-year-old Timothy Smith, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the Sunday shooting at Ed’s Car Wash in Melcroft, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometres) southeast of Pittsburgh. He is on life support and isn’t expected to survive.

Victim family members say Smith was a jealous ex-boyfriend of victim Chelsie Cline.

Vicki Snyder says Smith was always polite. She says he lived at home and helped out with a sister who used a wheelchair after a car accident a few years ago.

Family members of the victims of a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash say the man suspected of gunning down four people was driven by jealousy.

State police say 28-year-old Timothy Smith opened fire early Sunday morning at Ed’s Car Wash in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometres) southeast of Pittsburgh.

Twenty-seven-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Courtney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline were all killed.

Smith was on life support Sunday and not expected to survive after suffering a gunshot wound to his head. State police say it’s possible that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.

Authorities would not reveal how Smith knew the victims, but Chelsie Cline’s half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Smith had developed an obsession with Cline. </s> Five people were killed and another wounded Sunday in a shooting rampage in a small town 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State Police said.

Police said the bodies of three men and two women were found at or near 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. The identity of the victims were not immediately available, police said.

Melcroft is an unincorporated area of Fayette County, which borders Maryland and West Virginia. </s> WPVI-TV(MELCROFT, Penn.) — Four people were killed early Sunday in a shooting outside a self-serve car wash in a rural western Pennsylvania town when a man wearing body armor and wielding three guns, including an AR 15 semiautomatic assault rifle, opened fire on them, according to Pennsylvania authorities.

The shooting in Melcroft in Fayette County, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, occurred at 2:52 a.m. and was described by the local district attorney as a “horrible and senseless event.”

“First I would like to express our condolences to the families and friends that have lost loved ones during this devastating event,” Fayette County District Attorney Rich Bower said during a news conference Sunday afternoon. “I understand this one horrific event will change their lives forever and they will never forget the events that occurred.”

He said four people were found dead when Pennsylvania State Police troopers answered a 911 call reporting gunfire at the car wash. He said the suspected gunman was also discovered at the scene with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and was taken to a hospital, where he was on life-support.

Earlier Sunday, a State Police trooper initially said five people died in the shooting. But investigators clarified the number at the news conference, saying State Police mistakenly thought the gunman had died.

Bower said the shooting broke out at Ed’s Car Wash in the 1300 block of Indian Creek Valley Road. He said Smith arrived at the two-bay car wash in red Tacoma Pickup truck and parked alongside the business.

A short time later, two of the victims, William Scott Porterfield, 27, and Chelsie Lou Cline drove up in a silver Dodge Stratus, parked and exited the vehicle, Bower said. He said they proceeded to the side of the car wash, where they were shot and killed.

Two other victims, Courtney Sue Snyder, 23, and Seth William Cline, arrived moments later in a green Chevrolet Silverado extended-cab pickup truck.

The driver, Snyder, and the left front passenger, Seth Cline, “were shot and killed in the vehicle as it was in a stopped position,” Bower said. He would not say if Seth Cline and Chelsie Cline were related.

“While shots were being fired, an adult female passenger in the rear seat of the pickup truck, took cover in the truck and was able to survive,” Bower said. “Fortunately, she only sustained minor injuries from breaking glass.”

He said Smith was armed with an AR 15 semiautomatic assault rifle, a 9mm handgun and a .308 caliber rifle.

“Timothy Smith was also wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted, and had several magazines for the AR 15 and the 9mm handgun,” Bower said.

He said Smith sustained a gunshot wound to his head and is in grave condition.

“It is a possibility that the gunshot wound to Smith was self-inflicted,” Bower said. “However, that determination has not been made at this point.”

He said there were no outstanding threats to the community as a result of the incident and that all of the individuals involved were accounted for.

Bower declined to comment further on the circumstances of the shooting or release a possible motive for the incident.
Four people are shot and killed at a car wash in the Melcroft suburb of Saltlick Township in Pennsylvania. A fifth person, believed to be the gunman, is severely injured.