Nov. 28 (UPI) — A suspect is in custody after a city employee was killed in a shooting Tuesday at a government building in Pennsylvania.
Troopers were dispatched to the Paradise Township Municipal Building in the Pocono Mountains in Monroe County about 50 miles west of Philadelphia, officials said.
Police arrested the suspected shooter and found another man had been shot dead at the scene.
Chairman Gary Konrath of the township’s board of supervisors said the victim was a longtime township employee.
Konrath said about four employees were in the building when the shooting started.
Three people were killed in a similar incident five years ago when a gunman attacked supervisors meeting in Ross Township, about 20 miles away.
“As we have learned in the wake of the Ross Township shooting five years ago, township elected officials and employees serve on the front line of public service and sometimes find themselves in harm’s way,” the supervisors said in a statement. “In today’s world, townships must balance the demands of community safety and public access.”
