SAYLORSBURG, Pa. — A shooting during a township meeting Monday night left three people dead, and the gunman was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun before being taken into custody, a witness said.
The shooting, which also wounded at least two other people, happened shortly before 7:30 p.m. during Ross Township’s regular monthly meeting, said Guy Miller, the Monroe County emergency management director. The gunman, who appeared to be “shooting randomly,” was in state police custody at a hospital, Mr. Miller said.
The state police in Lehighton, Pa., confirmed that three were dead and that the gunman had been captured, and said that he had a continuing dispute with township officials over the possible condemnation of his property. They said at about 15 to 18 residents and officials were at the meeting.
The Pocono Record said that one of its reporters was in the township building and that a man armed with a pistol with a scope shot through a wall into the meeting, in northeastern Pennsylvania about 85 miles north of Philadelphia.
The reporter, Chris Reber, told the newspaper that he saw holes open up in the wall, with smoke and plaster blowing out. He said he heard what sounded like automatic gunfire. “I ran out after the first round of shooting,” he said. “I dropped to the floor. That’s what everyone did.”
“Then it stopped and I crawled out the sidedoor,” Mr. Reber told the newspaper. “I was the only person who crawled out. Everyone got behind a table.” Mr. Reber said that a woman opened a door to the meeting room and that the gunman “was standing there. A man pushed her aside and was shot. People were shot inside the room.”...
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