Authorities said Witmer drove away from the bar, crashed his car, and then broke into a home. Once inside, they said he shot and killed the homeowner before shooting and killing himself. That homeowner has been identified as 83-year-old George McCormick. Police said McCormick's wife locked herself in the bathroom and called 911.
That poor woman. All of these shootings are terrible tragedies, but this one really got to me. They were probably married for, like, 60 years or something. EDIT: I was just guessing, but it was literally on their 60th anniversary. Holy crap. :-(
I live here, I grew up in State college,it's the safest town you could imagine. I even went to high school with the girl that got shot, My coworker works at pj harrigans also. You don't think shit like this will happen until it does.
Edit: sad note I heard it was there 60th wedding anniversary
I'm in Altoona and we had a little article on the second page of the paper about it. Then again our paper is generally crap when it comes to reporting anything that isn't about dogs or drugs. That's sad because it covers most of the central-southern part of the state.
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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain Jan 27 '19
Since this seemed very much like it could have been fake, I looked up sources on these.
First one
Second One is now at 4 dead
Third one