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(CNN)
-- Two people were killed and five more were wounded in a shooting at a
town supervisor's meeting in eastern Pennsylvania, county officials
reported Monday.
Gunfire kills 2, wounds 5 at Pennsylvania town hall
updated 10:01 PM EDT, Mon August 5, 2013
Two dead in town hall shooting
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Seven shot in Pennsylvania township; two dead, two critical, official says
- A suspected gunman is in custody, county official says
- A commissioner calls the location "the quietest township in Monroe County"
The shooting broke out
shortly after 7:30 p.m. ET at the Ross Township building in Saylorsburg,
about 75 miles north of Philadelphia, Monroe County Emergency
Management Director Guy Miller told CNN. Two of the five wounded were in
critical condition Monday night, said Jeff Strunk, the county's deputy
911 director.
A suspected gunman was in custody, and the wounded were being taken to various hospitals nearby, Miller said.
Ross Township's
three-member Board of Supervisors meets the first Monday night of the
month at the township's municipal building. Monroe County Commissioner
Suzanne McCool said it was "the quietest township in Monroe County."
"They are never in the newspaper," McCool said. She said she knew of no controversial issues before the supervisors.
"They are the only township in Monroe County that hasn't had a tax increase in many, many years," she said.
CNN's Kevin Conlon and Joe Sutton contributed to this report.
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