4 dead in shootings at State College bar, home
STATE COLLEGE — A gunman opened fire at a hotel bar in State College, killing a man and wounding two other people, then broke into a home where he fatally shot another man before killing himself, authorities said.
Authorities said a fourth victim died Friday, according to the Centre Daily Times.
The initial shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. Thursday at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar & Grill, about 2 miles from Penn State University’s main campus.
Jordan Witmer, 21, of Bellefonte shot and killed Dean Beachy, 62, of Millersburg, Ohio, at the bar, authorities said. He also wounded another man as well as a woman he apparently had been in a relationship with.
Witmer then drove away from the bar and later broke into a home, where he fatally shot homeowner George McCormick, 83, before turning the gun on himself.
A person wounded at the bar remained hospitalized Friday in critical condition.
Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers called the shootings “an isolated incident,” adding that investigators were trying to determine if Witmer knew either of the men he fatally shot.
No other injuries were reported in either shooting.
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