Four dead in health club shooting

Four people were killed in a shooting rampage at a health club, it was reported today.

UPMC Mercy Hospital said five critically injured women were taken there.

Pittsburgh television station KDKA said the killings were at the LA Fitness Centre in Bridgeville, a community of about 5,000 not far from central Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh International Airport. The gunman was among the four killed.

Allegheny General Hospital spokesman Dan Laurent said two women with gunshot wounds had been taken there.

Allegheny County police said a person called them and said someone was shooting inside.

A witness told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper she was in an exercise class when a man came in through a back door and started shooting.

Gym member Lauren Dooley said she heard 12 to 15 shots.

Perry Calabro, who was playing racquetball inside, said when the shooting began “everybody started running”.