health club shooting

Investigators were trying to determine why a gunman walked into a fitness center near Pittsburgh, firing up to 52 shots only at women gathered in a dance exercise class, killing three, and wounding nine before shooting himself. Two women and the man.A man who sprayed bullets into a fitness class filled with women, killing three and then himself, apparently kept a Web page in which he wrote about years of rejection by women and an earlier plan for violence at the gym in which he said he chickened out.Five victims arrived in critical condition at UPMC Mercy Hospital, but three were upgraded to serious condition by early Wednesday.

Two women remained in fair condition at another Pittsburgh hospital, while one victim was treated and released for a shoulder wound at a third hospital south of the city. A woman with a bullet wound to the knee remained there in stable condition Wednesday.Moffatt said the gunman may have fired as many as 52 shots, assuming the guns were fully loaded and subtracting the number of bullets remaining in them.

The shooting took about a minute and police don't believe the gunman would have had time to reload.Moffatt would not say what kind of guns were used, but he believes the gunman was their legal owner.