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A backyard party near Pittsburgh ended in violence after gunmen shot and killed at least five people and injured three others in a mass shooting late Wednesday night. Police are still searching for the two shooters and a motive.The gunmen burst into the party in a residential neighborhood east of the city before opening fire from two different directions at around 11 pm last night, according to a statement from the Allegheny County Police Department. Four women and one man were shot and killed, with three more people wounded in the attack.
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Police said that two gunmen fired from an alley into a backyard party before one of them fired at the back porch as partygoers tried to run inside. The suspects then fled.Four people died at the scene on the back porch, while one woman died at a hospital, according to police. Two other male victims are in critical condition and another woman is in stable condition at local hospitals.Related: The Counterfeiting Missionary and the Fake Pittsburgh PlayboyOne of the people killed was a 38-year-old mother of five children, according to WPXI television channel. A woman named Tamara Greene, who lives several doors down from the house where the shooting took place, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the sound of the gunshots lasted long enough to wake up her entire family."It sounded like it was something in the movies," Greene said. "I can't believe it."Dozens of shell casings littered the pavement of an alleyway near the site, where police were gathering evidence and talking to witnesses, according to local media reports.The shooting in Wilkinsburg, a borough of about 15,000 chiefly lower-and middle-income residents, is the latest in a series of mass shootings that have made gun control a matter of heated debate in the United States.Reuters News Agency contributed to this report. Photo via Flickr.JUST IN: The names of the victims in the — KDKA (@CBSPittsburgh)March 10, 2016