HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. A man shot and killed a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a church hall then killed two men elsewhere in a rural central Pennsylvania town Friday before he was killed by gunshot in a gunfight with state troopers.

The incident began in Frankstown Township at about 9 a.m. and investigators were checking out five crime scenes within about a 1.5-mile radius, authorities said at a news briefing on Friday. The troopers were responding to a 911 call of a shooting in the town when they received calls of at least one other shooting elsewhere, state police spokeswoman Maria Finn said.

"It's going to take us some time to put this all together... and know exactly what occurred," Lt. Col. George Biven's, deputy state police commissioner, said at a news briefing.

