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Friday, March 11th, 2016

5 people have been killed in a mass shooting near Pittsburgh

Author:     Libby Nelson
Source:     Vox
Publication Date:     March 10, 2016, 8:24 a.m. ET
 Link: 5 people have been killed in a mass shooting near Pittsburgh
Stephan:   Here is this week's first massacre, the 44th mass killing by guns in the U.S. since the first of January. Mass murders have become so commonplace you may not have even heard of this one.  Or perhaps it rated a couple of 30 second mentions on the news you watch.  Anyway, just business as usual. I have a rather different view, which is why I am pointing this event out. We are having an epidemic; if these deaths were the result of some exotic virus, people would be running around in semi-hysteria. Remember the introduction of AIDs in 1981? I do and I will never forget it.
Gazette A mourner leaves candles at a makeshilft memorial on the steps of the scene of the shooting. Credit: John Heller/Posst-Gazette

A mourner leaves candles at a makeshift memorial on the steps of the scene of the shooting.
Credit: John Heller/Post-Gazette

Five people were killed and three injured in a shooting at a backyard barbecue and house party in Wilkinsburg, a Pittsburgh suburb, late Wednesday night, according to local police.

Local police said there were at least two shooters, and police are still searching for them, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Neighbors reported dozens of gunshots — one man said 26; another woman said the shooting continued for at least a minute.

Police haven’t said what the motive for the shooting was, nor have they identified suspects. Wilkinsburg is a relatively high-crime area. It had the second-highest murder rate in Allegheny County in 2012.

This isn’t the first mass shooting in Wilkinsburg, a town with only about 16,000 people. In 2000, a man named Ronald Taylor went on a shooting spree […]

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