Hey Richie, what happened to you ?! Man, you blew your last fuse!!
Friday April 28 11:45 PM ET
5 Dead in Suburban Pa. Shootings
By TODD SPANGLER, Associated Press Writer
McKEES ROCKS, Pa. (AP) - A white man opened fire in several suburban Pittsburgh communities Friday, killing five people and critically wounding a sixth in what police called a racially motivated shooting spree. The man was apprehended and charged.
The shootings took place within a 20-mile range through suburbs surrounding Pittsburgh during about an hour span Friday afternoon. The gunman fatally shot a person of Indian descent at an Indian grocery store, two employees at a Chinese restaurant and a black man at a martial arts school. A Jewish woman who lived next door to the suspect's parents was found dead in her home.
The suspect, Richard Baumhammers, 34, smirked at onlookers as he was led into a magistrate's office in Beaver Falls on Friday night wearing a bulletproof vest. Baumhammers, a lawyer from Mount Lebanon, was charged with criminal homicide and reckless endangerment in the martial arts school shooting. He was being held without bail. [...]
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