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Arson-Suicide: PA Dad Dies Attempting To Kill Family Coroner Releases Details (UPDATE) Arson-Suicide: PA Dad Dies Attempting To Kill Family Coroner Releases Details (UPDATE)
Arson-Suicide: PA Dad Dies Attempting To Kill Family Coroner Releases Details (Update) A Lancaster Township man poured gasoline throughout his home and set it ablaze during a domestic dispute early Sunday, Jan. 19, killing himself and critically injuring three others, including his sons and a family guest, police announced. Simon Hen, 46, died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns after the fire, and his death was ruled a suicide, Lancaster County Coroner Eric Bieber confirmed Monday, Jan. 20. Hen returned to his home on Wilderness Road at approximately 2:30 a.m., enraged over his impending separation from his 42-year-old wife, according to Lancaster Township Police. Inside…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Driver On Fentanyl Killed Mom, Injured Child In Head-On Christmas Day Crash: Manheim Twp PD Driver On Fentanyl Killed Mom, Injured Child In Head-On Christmas Day Crash: Manheim Twp PD
Driver On Fentanyl Killed Mom, Injured Child In Head-On Christmas Day Crash: Manheim Twp PD A 24-year-old man high on marijuana and fentanyl caused a head-on crash killing a mom and injuring her child on Christmas Day, Manheim Township police announced on Friday, April 5.  Steven Joel Berrios Maldonado was driving 27-year-old Karina Cruz-Camuy and her sons in a Gray Volkswagon Jetta while high on drugs, the police explained citing a blood test he took at the hospital.  Investigators determined Maldonado was going a minimum of 50.28 miles per hour in the marked 35 MPH zone on Wabank Road near Rabbit Hill Lane in Lancaster Township, when he he left the westbound …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Dad ID'd, Girl Taken To Lehigh Valley Burn Unit After Lancaster Twp Fatal Fire: Officials Dad ID'd, Girl Taken To Lehigh Valley Burn Unit After Lancaster Twp Fatal Fire: Officials
Dad ID'd, Girl Taken To Lehigh Valley Burn Unit After Lancaster Twp Fatal Fire: Officials A girl is in the Lehigh Valley Burn Unit and her dad has died following a fire in the apartment building attached to the Bausman Post Office in Lancaster Township on Tuesday, Feb. 13, fire officials announced later that day.  Nathaniel Holmes, 45 of 221 Rosedale Avenue died at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital at 12:16 a.m. on Feb. 13, Lancaster County Chief Deputy Can Eric Bieber detailed in a release. His cause and manner of death are pending the results of an auto, although Bieber noted he suffered thermal burns. The fire broke out in a house with three apartments (only…

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by Jillian Pikora
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PA Bicyclist Was Found By Brother After Deadly Hit-Run: Authorities PA Bicyclist Was Found By Brother After Deadly Hit-Run: Authorities
PA Bicyclist Was Found By Brother After Deadly Hit-Run: Authorities A Lancaster Township man is accused of fleeing the scene of the deadly crash that killed 23-year-old Anson Burkholder in Maidencreek Township last month.  Moshe K. Notis, 28, is charged with homicide by vehicle and other counts related to the Sept. 20 crash, said the Berks County District Attorney's Office.  Investigators say Burkholder, of Maidencreek, was biking home after stopping by a farm to tend to animals around 8 p.m.  When he never made it back, his brother went looking and found the 23-year-old dead off the shoulder of Route 222 near the edge of a cornfield, accord…

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by Mac Bullock
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PA Man Who Murdered His Boyfriend Found Dead In Prison Cell: DOC PA Man Who Murdered His Boyfriend Found Dead In Prison Cell: DOC
PA Man Who Murdered His Boyfriend Found Dead In Prison Cell: DOC A confessed and convicted killer who struggled with mental health issues has died in prison, according to a release by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.  Matthew VanZandt, 33, originally of Allentown, was found unresponsive in his cell in SCI Houtzdale in Clearfield County on May 11, 2022, the release shows. Prison security and medical staff immediately responded and provided life-saving measures until EMS arrived at the facility. Vanzandt was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m., acting Superintendent David Close. VanZandt was serving a 12- to 24-year sentence for First Degree Murder…

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by Jillian Pikora