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词条 Melcroft, Pennsylvania
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  1. History

     2018 shooting 

  2. References

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}}Melcroft is an unincorporated community in Saltlick Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 381 and Pennsylvania Route 711 {{convert|10.9|mi|km}} east-northeast of Connellsville. Melcroft has a post office with ZIP code 15462, which opened on September 13, 1918.[2][3]

History

The community's name is an amalgamation of Mellon and Croft, surnames of businessmen in the local mining industry.[4]

2018 shooting

In 2018, a mass shooting at a car wash left five people dead, including the perpetrator, and a sixth person with minor injuries. The incident occurred on January 28, 2018, at Ed’s Car Wash, just before 3:00 a.m., in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, south-east of Pittsburgh. The six people involved had arranged to meet at the local car wash for a fistfight between one of the victims and the eventual shooter.[5] Chelsie Cline, 25, her half-brother, Seth Cline, 21, her boyfriend at the time, William Porterfield, 27, a friend, Cortney Snyder, 23, and another unidentified woman, met with 28-year-old Timothy O’Brien Smith at the car wash. Smith had previously been in a relationship with Cline and reportedly had an ongoing feud with Porterfield who was her current boyfriend at the time.[6] Surveillance video had shown Smith grabbing Porterfield from behind earlier that morning at the Tall Cedars bar. Smith arrived at the car wash wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels, and was armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, a .308-caliber rifle, and a 9mm handgun.[7]

Smith opened fire on the victims with both his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and 9mm handgun. First, he killed both Cline and Porterfield, by gunning them down in the car wash's parking lot after they stepped out of their sedan. He then killed Snyder and Cline's half-brother as they sat in their pickup truck. The unidentified woman with them sat in the back of the vehicle survived after being taken to hospital.[8] In total, three vehicles were towed from the location, two were pickup trucks and the other was a sedan. After killing four people, Smith turned the gun on himself and shot himself in the head. He initially survived, but later died at a hospital just before 10:00 p.m.[9] At the time, it was the deadliest shooting in the U.S. in the year 2018, until it was surpassed by the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just seventeen days later.[10]

References

1. ^{{cite gnis|1180877|Melcroft}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action|title=USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code|accessdate=June 12, 2017|author=United States Postal Service}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code|url=http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|publisher=United States Postal Service|accessdate=June 12, 2017}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=Fayette County Survey of Boroughs and Unincorporated Townships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1_YAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Prepared for the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Fayette|page=1869|quote=... named "Melcroft" in honor of A.W. and R.B. Mellon and H.W. Croft who were Keppers' principal stockholders at that time.}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.wtae.com/article/victims-at-melcroft-car-wash-shooting-were-expecting-a-fist-fight/16753843|title=Victims at Melcroft car wash shooting were expecting a fistfight|publisher=WTAE-TV|date=2018-02-08|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/melcroft-shooting-what-we-know-about-victims-killed-at-car-wash/691064288|title=MELCROFT SHOOTING: What we know about 4 people killed at car wash|publisher=WPXI|date=2018-01-29|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fayette-county-pennsylvania-melcroft-car-wash-shooting-timothy-smith-live-updates-2018-01-28/|title=4 killed in shooting at car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania|publisher=CBS News|date=2018-01-28|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/29/jealousy-and-obsession-may-have-led-carwash-shooting-suspect-to-kill-four-relatives-say/|title=Jealousy and obsession may have led carwash shooting suspect to kill four, relatives say|publisher=The Washington Post|date=2018-01-30|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/us/pennsylvania-car-wash-shooting/index.html|title=Suspect in quadruple killing at car wash dies|publisher=CNN|date=January 29, 2018|accessdate=January 30, 2018|first1=Madison|last1=Park|first2=Joe|last2=Sutton}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/28/five-dead-shooting-pennsylvania-car-wash-melcroft-saltlick-township|title=Four dead in shooting at Pennsylvania car wash linked to domestic violence|publisher=The Guardian|date=2018-01-28|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
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