Six people were killed in LA Fitness shooting in Bridgeville, Collier Township, Pennsylvania. A lone gunman entered the premises of LA fitness center and opened fire killing instantly five people and wounding 11 others. The number of death is still not fixed yet, in some reports it is said that 5 has died, but in other reports the deaths has risen to 6 already. It is believed that the gunman is among the dead. The victims are mostly women who were there in the gym for their workout.
"I saw people flying off the treadmills, hitting the ground. We crawled through the fire escape, and I sprinted out the back," Lauren Dooley, one of the witnesses of the shooting says.
Perry Calabro, 53, of Bridgeville was also there when it happened, he says: "It was panic. Then we realized it was gunfire. Once the shooting started, everybody started running."
I grew up all over Luzon because of the nature of my father’s work. I can remember Dagupan City, it has helped a lot in shaping my childhood, we stayed there for about 5 years. Then in one of the islands in Hundred Islands, I couldn’t remember how long. Then there was Los Baños Laguna, 7 colorful years there. And of course Mandaluyong City. Then from Luzon I came to Cotabato City where I experienced my first “culture shock”. But I later learned to love the people and the place and stayed there for two years. Now I’m here in General Santos City (the Pacquiao town) where I met my destined lifetime partner who is a Visayan who could speak Tagalog, English, and some Ilonggdo.
My father is Ilocano, my mother Ilonga, but I grew up speaking Tagalog because that was what my family use at home. I have a 3 year old gwapong long haired son named Joshua Daniel and for now my world and joy is almost inside my family lang, wife and mother muna. I studied in UPLB (Communication Arts Major in Theater Arts for Children) and Mass Communication at Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges where I met my husband. He was teaching there part-time and I was in one of his Essay Writing classes. He encourages me to write and to blog. He majored in English but is so enamored with the language of computers. He takes care of the technical side of this blog and as much as possible does not get his hands wet with painting my emotions in my posts.
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