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The shooting took place about 8:15 p.m. at an LA Fitness center in a shopping center in Collier Township, about 12 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. An Allegheny County police officer said in a telephone interview that at least 11 people were injured and four or five people were believed to have been killed, and that it was unclear whether the toll of casualties would rise.

The gunman apparently walked into the gym, turned off the lights and entered a packed aerobics studio, where he set down his bag and began firing, according to WTAE Channel 4 News in Pennsylvania.There were shots fired at the LA Fitness, multiple people were shot and injured,” Tom Devin, the Collier Township police chief, told the station. “At this time, we don’t know who they are.

We believe the shooter committed suicide at the scene but we’re not positive.As dozens of emergency vehicles converged on the sprawling shopping center and closed off the scene, panicked gym-goers — some bloodied and wounded — fled the fitness center and scrambled for safety.One woman, Stacey Falk, 26, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the gunman appeared clean-shaven and short, sporting workout clothes as he entered the aerobics studio where Ms. Falk was exercising with as many as 40 other women. She said he stood in a corner for a brief moment, then put his bag on the floor, shut the lights and began spraying the room with bullets from what appeared to be a short-barrel rifle.

Girls were just ducking behind each other,” she told the paper. “All I could hear were shots and screams.Another woman who was in the gym, Lauren Dooley, 26, told the paper that the gym descended into chaos as soon as the shots rang out. Ms. Dooley was on a treadmill with headphones in her ears but still counted as many as 15 shots.