警方称，周五，一名枪手在宾夕法尼亚州伊利的家中自杀，造成八人死亡，其中包括两名幼童和一名孕妇。
伊利警察局长里克·洛拉赫周六告诉记者，7名受害者的年龄从1岁到51岁不等，他们是家庭成员，而另一名是家庭朋友。
警方最初说有九名受害者，但没有透露枪手是否包括在内。
Lorah说门铃摄像头捕捉到了两名受害者，只描述为住在房子里的家庭的嫂子和家庭朋友，在枪声响起之前敲门。
他们是在外面被杀的，酋长说。
“我们认为枪手走出来，对着两个女人喊。他们跑向，然后他开枪打他们，”劳拉说。
据警方称，一个特警队被叫来，在获得搜查令后进入了这所房子。
在房子里，Lorah说警察在一楼发现了两个家庭成员，一个5岁的男孩和一个1岁的女孩的尸体。
据警长说，警察又发现了四名受害者——一名24岁的女性、一名44岁的女性、一名19岁的男性和一名21岁的男性——死在二楼的楼梯间。
劳拉说，房子里的一名女性受害者已经怀孕八个月了。
“太可怕了。这是我经历过的最糟糕的场景，”他说。
根据Lorah的说法，枪手只被描述为一名45岁的男子，与屋内的受害者有关系，他也被发现在二楼，身上有自残的枪伤。
他的． 40口径手枪，登记在嫌疑人名下，在现场，警长说。
警方后来澄清说，死亡是在警察到达之前发生的，在警察到达和他们进入住宅之间没有开更多的枪。
Lorah反驳了一些批评，即警察等了太久才进入住宅，并强调警察试图评估情况，在他们到达后没有听到或看到任何其他活动。
“我们没有听到呼救声。我们没有看到里面有动静。如果有人听到这些，我们会立即进入。当这些警察到达那里时，他们遇到了一种可怕的沉默，”他说。
劳拉说，警方没有任何额外的信息或动机，并强调调查仍在继续。
伊利市长Daria Devlin补充说，当局最初没有透露关于该事件的太多信息，因为还有其他家庭成员不在房子里。
“所以我们的官员不得不在夜间做通知家属的可怕工作。再说一次，当我们考虑我们所担心的事情的顺序时，公共安全，家庭第一，然后给出其余的信息，”她说。
“我为这个家庭心碎。洛里和我正在为他们的亲人和整个伊利社区祈祷，”他在一份声明中说。
周六晚上，邻居和其他居民聚集在一起，纪念遇难者。
8 people， including 2 kids and pregnant woman， killed at Erie， Pennsylvania， home： Police
Eight people， including two young children and a pregnant woman， were killed at a home in Erie， Pennsylvania， on Friday by a gunman who took his own life， police said．
Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah told reporters Saturday that seven of the victims， whose ages range from a 1 year-old to 51， were family members while another was a family friend．
The police initially said there were nine victims but didn＇t disclose if the shooter was included in that count．
Officers responded to the house at 7th and Perry Streets around 4：50 p．m． after receiving a ShotSpotter alert about shots fired．
Lorah said doorbell cameras captured two of the victims， described only as a sister-in-law and family friend to the family who lived inside house， pounding on the door of the house before shots rang out．
They were killed outside， the chief said．
＂We believe that the shooter comes out and calls towards the two females． They run towards， and then he then he shoots them，＂ Lorah said．
A SWAT team was called in and entered the house after getting a warrant， according to the police．
Inside the home， Lorah said officers found two of the family members， a 5-five-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl dead on the first floor．
Officers discovered four more victims -- a 24-year-old woman， a 44-year-old woman， a 19-year-old man， and a 21-year-old man -- dead on a second-floor stairwell， according to the chief．
One of the female victims inside the house was eight months pregnant， Lorah said．
＂It was horrific． It was the worst scene I have ever experienced，＂ he said．
The shooter， only described as a 45-year-old man who was related to the victims inside the house， was also found on the second floor with a self-inflicted gunshot wound， according to Lorah．
His ．40 caliber handgun， which was registered to the suspect， was at the scene， the chief said．
Police later clarified that the deaths took place before the officers arrived and there were no additional shots fired between the time officers arrived and the time they entered the home．
Lorah pushed back against some criticism that the officers waited too long to enter the home and stressed that officers were trying to assess the situation and heard or saw no additional activity after they arrived．
＂We did not hear a cry for help． We did not see movement inside． Had any of those been heard， we would have made entry immediately． Those officers were met with an eerie silence when they arrived there，＂ he said．
Lorah said the police didn＇t have any additional information or motive， and stressed that the investigation is continuing．
Erie Mayor Daria Devlin added that the authorities didn＇t initially reveal too much information about the incident because there were other family members who were not at the house．
＂So our officers during the night had to do the terrible work of notifying families． And again， when we think about the order of what we＇re worried about， the public safety， the families first， and then giving the rest of the information，＂ she said．
Pennsylvania Gov． Josh Shapiro released a statement Saturday morning saying he spoke with Devlin and offered his support． He called the incident a ＂mass shooting，＂
“My heart breaks for this family． Lori and I are praying for their loved ones and the entire Erie community，＂ he said in a statement．
Neighbors and other residents gathered Saturday night for a memorial to the slain victims．
