Man shoots 3 teenagers, 2 fatally, at home in Camden, NJ, suburb before police kill him
By APFriday, October 1, 2010
NJ man shoots 3, 2 fatally, before being killed
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — Authorities say a man shot three teenagers, two fatally, in southern New Jersey before police killed him.
Jason Laughlin, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, says the shootings occurred late Thursday at a home in Pennsauken, a Camden suburb.
Laughlin identified the dead as a 14-year-old, an 18-year-old and the 54-year-old gunman. He says a 16-year-old was wounded.
Authorities aren’t saying whether the shooter was related to the victims.
Laughlin says police shot the gunman after he charged a group of officers while holding a gun, a lighter and a can of gasoline.
The home where the shootings occurred also was badly burned.
Pennsauken is a town of about 35,000 people, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.
(This version CORRECTS age of one victim to 14 instead of 12.)
