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Fatal Officer Involved Shooting At Elizabethtown Police Station: Lanco DA
An unidentified man was shot dead by an officer at a police station in Elizabethtown early Sunday morning, Nov. 3, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced later in the day. The man showed up at the Northwest Regional Police Department on Elizabethtown Road in Elizabethtown at 1:43 a.m. Lancaster County Wide Communications told the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office. He was armed with a handgun. We know an officer shot him, but the details were not immediately available. "This investigation is in its initial stages and additional information will be released…
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Officer-Involved Shooting Near Penn Township Massage Spa 'Completely Justified': Lancaster DA
A Northern Lancaster County Regional Police officer was "completely justified" in using deadly force to stop an armed robber from fleeing a massage business — Calm Spa — after allegedly raping two of its female employees, authorities said Tuesday, Sept. 10. Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced the conclusion of an investigation of the officer-involved shooting at the Penn Town Shopping Center, Penn Township, where the fleeing and armed suspect was shot twice by an officer responding to a "burglary in progress." Charges have been filed against the suspect, 36-year-old C…
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Man Killed By Police In Nursing Home Shooting Identified: York DA
A man who was shot dead by a police officer inside a Central Pennsylvania nursing home has been identified and details leading up to his death have been released by the York County Coroner's and District Attorney Dave Sunday's offices on Friday afternoon. Zachariah Alexander White, 32 from out of the state but temporarily residing in York, was shot dead at Rest Haven Nursing Home at 1050 South George Street in Spring Garden Township at 12:48 p.m. on May 2, according to the York County Department of Emergency Services, PSP, the coroner, and the DA. At a press conference, District Attor…
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Reading Police Shoot And Kill Knife-Wielding Man: Authorities (
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Update: The Berks County District Attorney's Office has identified the man as 50-year-old Damon S. Stern. Reading police officers said they killed a man who was armed with a knife early Monday morning, March 25. Authorities were called to the 400 block of Windsor Street around 3:45 a.m. for reports of a "male armed with a knife making suicidal threats," the department said in a release. Police said they commanded the man to drop the knife, "however, the male ignored those commands and moved towards the officers," the release says. They shot him and he succumbe…
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Scottish Man ID'd After Fatal Shot By Officers In Central PA: Coroner
The person shot dead by police in Central Pennsylvania has been identified as a Scottish man who had allegedly caused a disturbance, the Cumberland County Coroner told Daily Voice on March 18. Gregor Fleming, 44 of Glasgow, UK, was shot dead in the 5000 block of Erbs Bridge Road in Hampden Township on Thursday, March 7, authorities said. State police made the following statement about the events that led to the fatal shooting: "During the course of the investigation, the subject of the disturbance displayed a firearm. At that time, the officers discharged their firearms st…
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Man Shot By Officers ID'd By Pennsylvania State Police
A 34-year-old man has been identified after being fatally shot by an officer, the Pennsylvania State Police announced on Saturday. Payden Sells was shooting at the police when they returned fire killing him on Feb. 23, Trooper James Grothey detailed in a release. PSP York Troopers were called to assist area police with "domestic incident" in the 600 block of Colonial Avenue in Spring Garden Township at approximately 11:17 p.m., Grothey explained. Troopers soon learned that the caller to 911 had "reported that there was an actor on scene with multiple firearms, attempting to gain …
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Officer Hospitalized, Driver Killed After Pinning Patrolman With Car: PPD
A driver was shot dead by an officer after pinning the patrolman to a wall with his car, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel announced in a press conference late on Thursday night. The patrolman had been conducting a solo traffic stop at F Street and Roosevelt Blvd but pursued the driver to Adams and Newtown avenues in the 25th District, the Crescentville neighborhood, just after 7 p.m. on Feb. 15, Commissioner Kevin Bethel detailed. That's where the driver drove into the officer, pinning him by his legs between a vehicle and a wall of the bridge outside Tacon…
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Officers 'Justified' In Fatal Shooting Of Felon, Shippensburg Alum In Carlisle, DA
After reviewing events leading up to the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man, Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack ruled the police were justified in the killing. Nathaniel Lawrence Liberator, of Carlisle, was shot dead after police attempted to detain him for questioning following a disturbance in the area of the 300 block of C Street at 1:59 p.m. on Jan. 13, as Daily Voice previously reported. The officers were seen on body camera calmly asking him to stop walking away from them, the DA explained. The officers had no information about his mental healt…
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Felon, Shippensburg Alum Officers Shot Dead In Carlisle ID'd, PA State Police Say (
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A 33-year-old man was killed and a police officer pulled the trigger, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Megan Frazer announced on Saturday evening. Nathaniel Law Liberator, of Carlisle, has been identified as the man shot dead by an area police officer, Trooper Frazer said in an updated release. Carlisle Borough Police were called to a disturbance in the area of the 300 block of C Street at 1:59 p.m. on Jan. 13, Trooper Frazer explained. When officers arrived and began to investigate, "an altercation took place between Officers and a suspect," as stated in the state …
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State Police, Feds Investigating After Police Officer Shot In Scranton (
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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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2 Shot, 1 Killed By Police During Traffic Stop In PA (
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Someone is dead after a police officer shot at them during a traffic stop in Pennsylvania. The incident happened when police in Newton Square attempted a traffic stop of a white Nissan Altima in the 800 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue, Radnor Township around 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11. An altercation reportedly took place between the people in the car— which ended when the police shot the people in the vehicle, investigators said. One of the people shot died at the scene and the other was taken to a local hospital, police explained. "There is no threat to the c…
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Family Of Man Shot Dead By Philly Police Seek Answers
The relatives of a 27-year-old Philadelphia man shot dead by city police officers claim authorities lied about the circumstances that led them to kill him. Eddie Irizarry was fatally shot by two officers in Kensington around 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 14, city police have previously confirmed to Daily Voice. In comments that were widely reported including by the Philadelphia Inquirer, police originally claimed that Irizarry was followed by officers after they saw him drive the wrong way down a city street. Police alleged the 27-year-old had lunged at the officers with a k…
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NJ Police Officer Justified In Shooting Driver To Stop Backhoe Rampage, Grand Jury Rules
UPDATE: A local New Jersey police sergeant was justified in shooting a man who hijacked a backhoe and went on a rampage, damaging two police vehicles, an ambulance and an occupied civilian sedan before he was finally stopped. Although authorities collected a trove of surveillance and bodycam video showing precisely what led to the death of Joshua Gonzalez, 20, of Millville, state law still required a grand jury to review the outcome. Gonzalez kept police at bay for nearly a half-hour during the video-recorded rampage in Vineland, which began around 5 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2021, on West Park Dri…
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PA Officers' Lives Were In 'Imminent Danger' When They Shot Armed Teen Dead
The police have been 'cleared' and will not be charged following the Lancaster District Attorney's office investigation into the "officer-involved" shooting death of a Black juvenile burglary suspect, according to a press release on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Police shot and killed 17-year-old Darren Shaw of Lancaster on Aug. 6, according to the County Coroner's office. Ten minutes after midnight, officers with the Lancaster Bureau of Police were called to a burglary in progress in the first block of West New Street, according to a release by the department. The officers arri…
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Wanted Man Shot In Head During Hostage Situation In Harrisburg: Police
A 28-year-old Harrisburg man was shot in the head after holding a stranger's two-year-old daughter hostage, according to the Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo’s Office. Antonio Hammond has been charged with kidnapping of a minor, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal trespassing, and related firearms charges, the DA’s office explained in a release on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Hammond was wanted for violating his parole on Feb. 23, 2023, and the Fugitive Task Force had been looking for him when Harrisburg Police spotted him on Tuesday, but he quickly fled— although not befor…
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: Sharp-Shooting Officer Downs Rifle-Wielding NJ Madman Who Threatened Woman
Gripping video shows an irate man with a rifle threatening to kill a female homeowner before a steady-nerved local New Jersey police officer takes him down from a distance with a single shot. The fatal encounter from earlier this year plays out in a collection of video -- including one from the hero officer's body cam and another from a surveillance camera pointed directly at the house -- that was released by state Attorney General Matthew Platkin. The video is part of a state-mandated investigation into the police-involved death of Daniel Nevius Sr., 55, of Sicklerville this past January.…
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NJ Police Officer, Woman Both Wounded, Suspect Dead In Domestic Incident
UPDATE: A police officer was shot responding to a domestic incident that left a woman wounded and the gunman dead Saturday afternoon in Warren County, authorities confirmed. Warren County Prosecutor Jim Pfeiffer confirmed that the suspect had shot the woman and then opened fire on officers responding to the 1:15 p.m. April 8 incident just off Hanover Street in Phillipsburg. The gunman then shot and killed himself, the prosecutor said. Both the officer, who was wounded in the leg by a round shot through his car door, and the woman, who was shot in the torso, were airlifted to nearby St. Lu…
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Officer Facing Long Recovery, Suspect In South Jersey Police Shooting ID'd
UPDATE: Authorities identified a civilian killed during a struggle in which a South Jersey police officer was shot as a 24-year-old local resident. Ring video from the Gloucester County neighborhood reportedly captured a significant portion of the incident. Mitchell Negron Jr., 24, first ran and then struggled with Deptford Police Officer Robert Shisler after being approached on dead-ended Delsea Drive shortly after 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 10, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. "Both individuals were shot in the area of Doman Avenue," Platkin said on Sunday. Negron wa…
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Suspected ID'd After Officer Shot In Western PA, Police Say
A man is under police guard at a Pittsburgh area hospital after the officer he shot fired back at him on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, authorities say. Allegheny County 9-1-1 was notified of shots fired in the area of Catherine and Savey streets around 12:18 a.m., Allegheny County Department of Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns details in a release approximately 12 hours later. "A Duquesne police officer responded to the area. When the officer arrived, he was immediately met by gunfire before exiting his vehicle. The officer returned fire striking the suspect in…
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Handcuffs Of Slain Temple U Officer Used In Capture Of Suspect In Bucks County
The handcuffs that Philadelphia Police Office Christopher Fitzgerald used every day at work were used to apprehend the 18-year-old suspect accused of shooting him dead, officials said. Miles Pfeffer was captured at his home on the 2300 block of Quarry Road in Buckingham Township at 7:12 a.m., according to Daily Voice sources and the Bucks County DA's Office. Pfeffer is accused of fatally shooting the officer during a foot pursuit on the 1700 block of West Montgomery Avenue Saturday evening, Feb. 18, authorities said. Pfeffer disregarded the officer's orders and a struggle ensued, authorit…
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IDs Of Officers Killed, Wounded In Pennsylvania Shooting Released
One police officer has died after two officers were shot in McKeesport on Monday, February 6, 2023, authorities say. Officer Sean Leonard Sluganski has been identified as the officer killed and Officer Chuck Thomas has been identified as the officer shot in the face and neck area, according to the Allegheny County sheriff's office. The Allegheny County Police Department’s Homicide Unit responded to a request for assistance in McKeesport for an... Posted by Allegheny County Police Department on Monday, February 6, 2023 🚨Everyone please stop what you are doing and PRAY for my BLUE …
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Police Chief Killed By Suspected Carjacker In PA Exactly Four Years After Being Sworn In
A Pennsylvania police chief was fatally shot by a suspect who late was killed by officers exactly four years after being sworn in as chief. Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire — who was sworn into his role on Jan. 2, 2019 — was killed in the line of duty Jan. 2, 2023, officials confirm. He was allegedly shot by a suspected carjacker identified as 28-year-old Aaron Lamont Swan near the the 800 block of Sixth Avenue shortly after 4 p.m., local police said. Swan fled in a vehicle then crashed, and ran into a wooded area toward a housing development, Allegheny County Police Superintende…
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