Police describe silence at scene of Erie mass shooting
USA TODAY's report centers on responding officers who found nine people dead inside a Pennsylvania home.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 162,019 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (9,694).
Officers met with ‘eerie silence’ at scene of Erie mass shooting
USA TODAY reports that officers responding to a shooting at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, encountered an "eerie silence" before discovering nine people dead inside. The brief report focuses on the scene police faced when they arrived.
The Short reached about 112,000 views in its first half-day, already far beyond the roughly 10,000 a regular USA TODAY Short draws over a full first day. Its comment section was also several times busier than the channel's usual first-day discussion, before that first day was complete.
Among the responses, viewers discuss the burden on police and other emergency responders who encounter scenes like this. Others ask for more information about what happened. The report's focus remains the officers' initial response and the deaths they discovered.
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- Channel
- USA TODAY
- Subscribers
- 7,590,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 8,666,166
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,008,150 (on a normal day: 1,560,994)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 111,949 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 162,019
The numbers
The Erie report drew an unusually large early audience for a USA TODAY Short, with comments also arriving well above the usual first-day total.
