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Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle
Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle A knife attack in Pennsylvania led to an hours-long standoff involving a sniper rifle before police airlifted the suspect to a trauma center and charged him with criminal attempt to commit homicide. Mack Antonoff, 62, has been charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, and reckless endangerment, Pocono Mountain Regional Police said. Officers responding to a home on the 400 block of Cedar Drive in Long Pond found that Antonoff had tried to stab a woman several times on Thursday, Oct. 20, the department said. The woman suffered minor injuries but wa…

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by Valerie Musson
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DA: Baby Beaten To Death In Poconos Apartment, 3 Charged Also Had Heroin DA: Baby Beaten To Death In Poconos Apartment, 3 Charged Also Had Heroin
DA: Baby Beaten To Death In Poconos Apartment, 3 Charged Also Had Heroin The death of a 2-month-old baby in a Poconos, PA apartment has been ruled a homicide, authorities said. The infant girl, Ryann Bacchus, was found with trauma to her head resulting in multiple skull fractures in a Barrett Township apartment on March 19, the Monroe County District Attorney's Office said. County Coroner Thomas Yanac Jr. ruled the baby's death a homicide. As of last Friday, three people were charged with child endangerment in relation to the child’s death, while homicide charges had not yet been filed, officials said. Pocono Mountain Regional police officers responded to…

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by Cecilia Levine