8 人在宾夕法尼亚州埃里市枪击事件中死亡，市政府官员称。枪击事件发生在周五晚上，地点似乎是一个住宅区。市政府官员称，枪手也已死亡。
8 People Are Killed in Shooting in Erie, Pa., City Officials Say The shooting was reported on Friday night in what appeared to be a residential area. The shooter was also dead, city officials said.
根据市政府官员的说法，周五晚上在埃里市宾夕法尼亚州的一个住宅区内，有八人遇害，枪手被发现死亡。
Eight people were killed and a shooter was found dead on Friday night in a residential area of Erie, Pa., according to city officials.
市长办公室周六发布的一份声明确认了九人死亡。此前该办公室在周五曾表示，“目前公众没有持续的威胁或危险。”根据市政府周六发布的一份声明，警方在收到警报后几分钟内就赶到了事发的住宅。应急人员无法立即判断现场是否仍有持续威胁，但他们到达后没有再发生枪击。他们展开了战术反应，投掷了闪光弹。
The nine deaths were confirmed in a statement issued Saturday by the mayor’s office, which had said on Friday that there was “no ongoing threat or danger to the public at this time.”Officers responded to a residential home within minutes of receiving an alert, according to a statement released by the city on Saturday. Emergency responders could not immediately determine if there was an ongoing threat at the scene, but no gunshots were fired after their arrival. They conducted a tactical response, releasing flash bang devices.
根据声明，事件中没有发生对峙，所有死亡均发生在警方到达现场之前。邻居们听到枪声后感到震惊，并试图寻找答案。
There was no standoff, and all of the deaths occurred before officers arrived at the scene, according to the statement. Neighbors were rattled and sought answers as they heard gunshots ring out in the evening.
住在枪击事件发生街区的詹妮弗·洛特说，她在周五晚上在家时听到了枪声。她跑到街上，但没看到什么，于是返回屋内拿手机。她又跑回外面，看到一名女子躺在街上。
Jennifer Lott, who lives on the block where the shooting took place, said she was at home on Friday evening when she heard gunshots. She ran to the street and when she didn’t see anything she returned inside to grab her phone. Racing back outside, she saw a woman lying in the street.
“我走近后发现她头部中弹，一动不动，大家一直让我后退，说警察快来了，”她在周六的一次采访中回忆道。
“I got closer and I noticed she had a gunshot wound to her head and she wasn’t moving and everybody kept telling me to back up, the police were coming,” she recalled in an interview on Saturday.
枪手和遇难者的身份尚未公布，也没有透露作案动机。根据市长的声明，枪击事件发生在第七街和佩里街附近。该交叉路口周边主要为住宅区。
The identities of the shooter and the victims were not immediately released, and no motive was disclosed. The shooting took place near 7th and Perry Streets, according to the mayor’s statement. The area around the intersection is mainly residential.
“这是我们的警官和调查人员遇到过的最困难、最令人心碎的现场之一，”伊利市警察局局长里克·洛拉周五晚间对记者说，据纽约WABC-TV报道。“生命的逝去令人痛心，我们正在处理的情况令人深感不安。”原定于周六下午举行新闻发布会，提供更多细节。
“This is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking scenes our officers and investigators have ever encountered,” Chief Rick Lorah of the City of Erie Police Department told reporters on Friday night, according to WABC-TV in New York. “The loss of life is devastating, and the circumstances we are working through are deeply disturbing.”A news conference providing additional details was scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
52岁的洛特女士说她整晚没睡，周六她的社区到处拉着警戒线，道路仍对交通封锁。
Ms. Lott, 52, said she hadn’t slept all night, and that her neighborhood on Saturday was strewed with crime scene tape, and the road remained blocked to traffic.
她说她认出了在街上看到的两名死者女性的身份，但不确定还有谁遇难。“他们不肯透露任何名字，”她谈到警方时说。“他们只说屋里没人活着出来。”她说她认识枪手及其家人，但关系不亲密。她描述了一种持续多年的家庭动荡模式。“我只知道他们经常吵架，”她说。乔纳森·沃尔夫参与了报道。
She said she knew the identities of two women whom she saw were dead in the street, but was uncertain who else had died. “They wouldn’t give any names,” she said of the police. “They just said nobody made it out of the house.”She said she knew the gunman and his family, but was not close to them. She described a pattern of domestic turmoil that has gone on for years. “All I know is they argued a lot,” she said. Jonathan Wolfe contributed reporting.