There are at least four victims in several locations.
Residents in parts of Poconos were asked to take shelter there after several shootings in various locations left at least four wounded on Monday night, officials said.
The Monroe County Emergency Management Office said people on Corridor 196 between Pocono Country Place and Pocono Farms East should seek shelter and report any suspicious activity.
The suspect is at large, according to Mount Pocono Mayor Michael Penn.
“Please consider this an evolving danger to the safety of the community,” wrote Penn on Facebook.
The rapid shooting, according to the mayor, was reported at a Pocono Country Place, at the Dollar General store in Tobyhanna and in Stoogies at Rouge 196.
Police were dispatched at 5 pm to report several shots, said Pocono Mountain Regional Police Chief Christopher Wagner at a news conference on Monday night. At that time, they started receiving other calls from gunshots in the municipality.
Police said the initial response was at a residence and then at a shopping mall, where a 47-year-old woman was shot in the back and a 19-year-old man was shot in the arm. The woman had to be taken to a hospital trauma center.
A third victim, a 20-year-old man, was shot in the head in a parking lot and is unconscious, police said. Subsequently, the fourth victim was found in a traffic accident, where another 20-year-old man was shot in the leg.
The conditions of the victims are unknown.
Dollar store general manager Nicole Hull told ABC News’ WNEP affiliate that she heard several shots.
“It was scary. I’m used to living close to a gun range, so in my head, it’s ah, it’s a gun range, but in reality. It was very close to us and started in our parking lot,” said the station.
Interested is being questioned, but no arrests have been made, officials said.
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