LA Fitness Tragedy

I’m sure many of you have heard by now of the tragic events that occurred last night in Pittsburgh. A fatal shooting at an LA Fitness left three women dead and nine other wounded.

Pittsburghchannel.com reported:

Police said Sodini walked into the gym in the Great Southern Shopping Center with at least four handguns hidden in his bag around 8 p.m. He made his way to an aerobics room where at least 20 people were working out in a Latin Dance class, police said.

Police said Sodoni used three guns in the shooting. Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Sodoni used a .45 calibre revolve to kill himself.Witnesses told police the lights in the class went out and the next thing they heard were gunshots. Four people, including the gunman, were killed, police said. Nine others were wounded.

“I’ve never seen nothing quite like this,” Moffatt said. “It was very chaotic.”The three victims who were fatally shot have been identified by the medical examiner as 46-year-old Heidi Overmier, of Carnegie, 49-year-old Elizabeth Gannon, of Pittsburgh and 38-year-old Jody Billingsley, of Mt. Lebanon.

Is it safe anywhere anymore? School shootings, college campus, malls, gyms… I mean, what are these people thinking? Let people go about their lives and not have to worry about being hit my a stay bullet! Sheesh.lafitnessIt is definitely disturbing to read about this story, but this is what happens in life sometimes, so we have to deal with it, unfortunately.

“My niece said a couple bullets went past her head and (the gunman) leaned down, straddled her and shot her in the shoulder.”
- Ron Fleeher,
A shooting victim’s uncle
I have a lot of relatives in Pittsburgh so this is definitely scary to hear for many, many reasons. We’re pushed to go to the gym for our own health, and something like this happens. Definitely a horrible tragedy.
Check out the link for more information on the shooting.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/20283352/detail.html

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