Suspect sought in 5 shooting deaths near Philadelphia

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/15/suspect-sought-in-3-separate-shootings-that-killed-5-in-pennsylvania/

DEVELOPING: Police are surrounding a home outside Philadelphia where a suspect is believed to have barricaded himself after shootings at multiple homes.

Police told WPVI-TV the man is suspected of killing a five people Monday morning at three different homes northwest of Philadelphia.

The television station reports the man is holed up in a Souderton home where police say two people were killed. Police say the man is also suspected of killing a woman in Harleysville and two people in Lansdale. The first shooting was reported at 4:25 a.m. Monday.

Officials are referring questions to the Montgomery County district attorney's office.

The Souderton Area School District, citing police activity in Souderton and Harleysville, has ordered students and teachers to shelter in place until further notice.

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5 said killed in shootings near Philadelphia

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/15/us/pennsylvania-shootings/index.html

CNN) -- Five people are dead after shootings in three communities in a county near Philadelphia in what a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation says appears to be a domestic dispute.

The gunman shot and killed his former wife and then shot and killed other members of his family at a different location Monday morning, the official said.

A suspect is barricaded at a home in Souderton, the law enforcement official said.

The shootings happened at several places in Montgomery County, said John Corcoran, deputy director of public safety there.

The first shooting happened just before 4 a.m. in Lower Salford Township, a community of about 15,000, according to CNN affiliate WPVI. It said one person was killed in that shooting and two others were killed in Lansdale, a nearby community of about the same size.

WPVI reported that two additional people were shot to death in Souderton. Those communities are just north of Philadelphia.

Those reports could not independently be confirmed.