4 killed in Pennsylvania car wash shooting

Police investigate a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash

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published 29 January 2018

Authorities in Saltlick Township, Pennsylvania, say four people were killed in a shooting at a car wash early Sunday morning.

The victims have been identified as Chelsie Cline, 25; Courtney Snyder, 23; Seth Cline, 21; and William Porterfield, 27. Chelsie Cline's half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the suspect, 28-year-old Timothy Smith, had become obsessed with Cline. Police say during the attack, Smith suffered a gunshot wound to the head, possibly self-inflicted, and is on life support. He is not expected to survive. Officials said Smith was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun when he arrived at the car wash.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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