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State Police, Feds Investigating After Police Officer Shot In Scranton (UPDATED) State Police, Feds Investigating After Police Officer Shot In Scranton (UPDATED)
State Police, Feds Investigating After Police Officer Shot In Scranton (Updated) More details are emerging in the Thursday, Jan. 11 shooting of a Scranton police officer.  The officer and an unnamed "subject" were both shot during an "exchange of gunfire," authorities said previously.  In a Thursday afternoon press conference, a state police spokesman said SPD officers were investigating a pair of shootings — one on the 400 block of Harrison Avenue and one on the 300 block of Prospect Avenue — when the gunfight broke out.  Both the officer and the other person remain at Geisinger CMC in "critical but stable" condition, according to police. …

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by Mac Bullock & Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: Mexico Arrest Of NETAS Gangmember Wanted For Deadly PA Shooting COLD CASE: Mexico Arrest Of NETAS Gangmember Wanted For Deadly PA Shooting
Cold CASE: Mexico Arrest Of Netas Gangmember Wanted For Deadly PA Shooting US Marshals have arrested the NETAS street gang member in Mexico who has been sought for 25 years in connection to a fatal Pennsylvania shooting, officials announced on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.  Israel Mendoza has been wanted by authorities since he allegedly shoot Michele Lutz in the back on Front and Elm Street killing her on August 2, 1998, according to Reading police. Now 43 years old, Mendoza was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement in Jalisco, Mexico, on Friday, August 18th, 2023, according to the police release.  Mendoza was the third of four suspects to be a…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
Mass Shooting At 20-Year-Old Man's Pittsburgh Funeral: Police Mass Shooting At 20-Year-Old Man's Pittsburgh Funeral: Police
Mass Shooting At 20-Year-Old Man's Pittsburgh Funeral: Police At least six people were shot during a funeral for a 20-year-old man in Pittsburgh, on Friday, Oct. 28, police say.  The funeral was for John Hornezes Jr. who was among three people shot dead near a bus stop Pittsburgh's North Side on Oct. 15. Hornezes was believed to have been the target of the shooting according to the police.  The funeral was being held at Destiny of Faith Church located at 3700 block of Brighton Road when the first five shots rang out, followed by another 15 rounds around 12:04 p.m.,  Commander Richard Ford told the press around 2 p.m. One person wa…

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by Jillian Pikora