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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere


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         <div class="caption">Local law enforcement block off road along
 Rt. 22 near the Canoe Creek State Park, Pa. while investigating a 
shooting, Dec. 21, 2012. <span class="caption_credit">(J.D. Cavrich/Altoona Mirror/AP)</span></div> 
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       </div>HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural township on Friday before he was shot dead in a gunfight with state troopers.
Three troopers in patrol cars were injured in a pursuit that began after the gunman, driving a pick-up truck, fired at them, police said. One trooper injured a wrist and then was hit in the chest but was saved by a bulletproof vest.
The gunman was killed during a final exchange of gunfire after ramming his truck head-on into another police cruiser, authorities said.
The shootings began in Frankstown Township, in central Pennsylvania, at about 9 a.m., and investigators were processing five crime scenes within about a 1.5-mile radius, authorities said at a news briefing Friday afternoon. Troopers were responding to a 911 call of a shooting in the township when they heard calls reporting at least one other shooting elsewhere, state police said.

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