INDIANA, Pa. — Two men were shot and killed in Indiana Borough shortly after midnight Wednesday.
Police said one of the victims died inside an apartment at the Essex House on Oakland Avenue and the other died at a hospital.
Police told
[ Channel 11's Jennifer Tomazic ]
that the suspected shooter, George Exum, 21, is a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He and two women were taken into custody.
Investigators said the shooting happened when three women and two men arrived at Exum's apartment. One of the women, Catherine Hullenbaugh, 21, told police the group had planned to buy marijuana from Exum.
When Exum and the two men began to fight, the women ran outside to their car.
Hullenbaugh told police she heard gunshots, and a short time later one of the men, Shawn Richardson, came outside and told her he had been shot in the neck. Hullenbaugh drove him to the hospital, where he died.
The other man, later identified as Jamar Watt of Pittsburgh, died inside the apartment, police said.
As police took him to the magistrate's office, Exum told Tomazic he shot the two victims in self-defense.
Hullenbaugh and Consetta Menta, 28, were crying as they were taken inside the magistrate's office. The third woman was not charged.
Investigators said that Exum told them the other men attacked him with a tire iron, and that Hullenbaugh was there at the time of the shooting. Exum also told police that Menta let the group into the apartment.
All three are facing homicide charges.