The gunman, 40-year-old Leo Held, opened fire at his workplace in Lock Haven, the William T. Piper Memorial Airport, and the home of one of his neighbors in Loganton, killing six people and wounding six others.
[2] The shooter, 40-year-old Leo Held, left his home in Loganton armed with a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol and a .38 caliber revolver.
After parking outside, Held entered through the front door and fatally shot his boss, Carmen Edwards, through the heart from behind at the doorway leading to the mill's engine room.
Held then drove back to Loganton, where he entered the unlocked backdoor of his neighbor's house and went into their bedroom, fatally shooting Floyd Quiggle and wounding his wife Donna as they slept in their bed.
Donna was paralyzed from the shoulders down as a result of the shooting, as the Quiggle's daughter Joan hid beneath her bed in her bedroom.
Held had graduated from Sugar Valley High School in 1946 and had studied chemistry at Lock Haven State College.
[5] A neighbor, Ella Knisely, had once gotten into an argument with Held over a fallen tree limb, which prompted him to attack her with the branch.