Gunmen worked as team in Pennsylvania ambush that killed 6

Gunmen worked as team in Pennsylvania ambush that killed 6

Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot six people and critically wounded another at a backyard cookout, with one attacker using a high-velocity rifle to shoot all the victims in the head as they were driven in his direction, a prosecutor said Thursday.

The gunmen appeared to have targeted one or two of the victims, said Zappala, who added that they hadn’t ruled out drugs as a motive.

Four women, one of them pregnant, and a man were killed as they rushed toward the back porch and an alleyway to seek cover as a gunman fired a .40-caliber pistol at as many as 15 adults who were playing cards and having a late-night cookout in the yard.

“It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the back door of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard,” said Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County homicide unit.

Robert Morris said he saw children run onto the small back porch and heard someone scream, “Mommy, Mommy!”