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Two Dead After Murder-Suicide in Schuylkill County

EAST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP — Two men are dead after an early morning shooting in Schuylkill County. State police call it a murder-suicide involving former co...
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EAST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP -- Two men are dead after an early morning shooting in Schuylkill County.

State police call it a murder-suicide involving former co-workers.

The shooting happened around 7:30 a.m. Friday, when one man was going into work and was shot by his former co-worker just 30 minutes before the business near New Ringgold was set to open for the day.

State police say Scott Allen Baver, 46, of Orwigsburg waited in the parking lot of Joe's Used Auto Parts on Summer Valley Road. He then got out of the car shot Robert Eli Greene, 63, of Lehighton as he walked inside and as others were just getting ready to start the day.

Troopers said Baver is a former employee of Joe's Used Auto Parts and Greene was a current employee.

“It was like an ambush-style attack,” said Trooper David Beohm, Pennsylvania State Police.

After the attack, Baver drove away. He pulled off the road about three miles west of New Ringgold and shot and killed himself, according to investigators.

Police are still looking for a clear motive for this murder-suicide, but at this point believe there may have been some sort of past dispute between the two men.

It’s shocking to some customers who say everyone here seemed so nice.

“You don’t know what to expect today anymore, you know. You think you know somebody and you might not you know,” said William Strohl of Kunkletown.

“It’s unfortunate. It’s not right. You don’t want to take anybody’s life for no reason. There is no good reason for taking somebody’s life,” said customer Ben Hess. "Somebody is without their father, some wife without their husband, son or daughter without their daddy. My heart goes out to their family and loved ones."

At this time state police have not said when the shooter worked at the used auto parts business, and if he was fired or quit.

Two Dead After Murder-Suicide in Schuylkill County

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