Jealous Shooter Killed At Least 4 People At Car A Wash - Police

A shooter who out of  jealousy opened fire and killed about four people at a car wash on the early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania.
According to the Police, 28 year old Timothy Smith was on life support and is not expected to survive the injuries after suffering a gunshot wound to his head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. This all happened in Salt-lick Township, a rural town about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said it was possible that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. A woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries the police and family of the victims revealed. Armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun and wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted, Smith killed 27-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Courtney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline.

Meanwhile, Ed Bukovac the owner of the car wash told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a neighbor alerted him around 4 a.m in the early Sunday morning and said something was wrong at his business. Bukovac said police were on the scene by the time he arrived and that he had few other details about what happened.

A man who lives nearby told the newspaper that he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.

Porterfield's pregnant wife, Jenna Porterfield, 24, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a state police investigator told her that 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. Porterfield said that she and her husband — who were married in November — had been "having some troubles" this month.

"I'm not holding that against Will. We weren't fighting. We were fixing. And if he was with someone else while we were having problems, honestly, I don't care what he did. I'm not going to hold that against him," Porterfield told the newspaper. "I'd give anything to have him back."

Smith was first to arrive at the scene and was parked on the side of the two-bay car wash when Porterfield and Cline arrived, police said. Smith shot them when they got out and walked to the side of the car wash, they said.

Snyder and Seth Cline arrived at the same time and police said Smith opened fire on them. Another woman in the rear seat of the extended cab pickup truck only suffered injuries from broken glass.

Police said Smith had several magazines for the weapons.

Cayleigh Myers said she was friends with Seth Cline, Chelsie Cline's half-sibling, and described the construction worker as "very outgoing, very funny and very smart."

"You always had fun when you were around him," Myers said. "He would give his shirt off his back for you, anything, it didn't matter what it was, what time it was, if you need him, you could call him. He was everything."

Ed Bukovac, who owns the car wash, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a neighbor called him around 4 a.m. Sunday and said something was wrong at his business. Bukovac said police were on the scene by the time he arrived and that he had few other details about what happened.

A man who lives nearby told the newspaper that he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.

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