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Four dead, gunman on life support after shooting at Pa. carwash

January 28, 2018 at 8:02 p.m. EST
A truck sits near near Ed's Car Wash in in Saltlick Township, Pa., where four people were killed in a shooting early Sunday morning. The gunman suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was on life support and not expected to survive. (Justin Merriman/Getty Images)
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Four are killed in shooting at carwash

A man suspected of gunning down four people at a Pennsylvania carwash was driven by jealousy, according to family members of the shooting victims.

State police said Timothy Smith, 28, was armed with a semiautomatic rifle, a .308-caliber rifle and a handgun and was wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted when he opened fire early Sunday morning at Ed's Car Wash in Saltlick Township, a town about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

William Porterfield, 27; Chelsie Cline, 25; Courtney Snyder, 23; and Seth Cline, 21, were killed.

Smith was on life support Sunday and was not expected to survive after suffering a gunshot wound to his head. State police said it was possible that the injury was self-inflicted.

Authorities would not reveal how Smith knew the victims, but Chelsie Cline's half sister, Sierra Kolarik, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Smith had developed an obsession with Cline.

Porterfield's pregnant wife, Jenna Porterfield, 24, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a state police investigator told her Smith was a jealous former boyfriend of Cline.

Porterfield said that she was told by family members of other victims that her husband and Cline had spent the past two days together after Cline ended a relationship with Smith.

— Associated Press

Alleged serial stowaway arrested: A woman arrested this month for sneaking onto a plane and flying to London was arrested again early Sunday when police spotted her at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, authorities said. Marilyn Hartman, 66, was barred by a Cook County judge from entering the airport after she was charged with felony theft for allegedly sneaking onto a British Airways jet at O'Hare and flying to the United Kingdom without a $2,400 plane ticket. Hartman, who is notorious for stowing away on commercial airplanes, also was charged in that incident with misdemeanor criminal trespassing for entering O'Hare illegally. In addition to ordering Hartman to stay away from O'Hare, the judge, Stephanie K. Miller, required her at a Jan. 20 bond hearing to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and wear an ankle monitor until her case is concluded. Miller released Hartman on her own recognizance.

— Associated Press