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Pennsylvania Trooper Fatally Shoots 'Juvenile' Boy Pennsylvania Trooper Fatally Shoots 'Juvenile' Boy
Pennsylvania Trooper Fatally Shoots 'Juvenile' Boy Authorities are investigating after a "juvenile" male was shot dead by a Pennsylvania state trooper in Bradford County Thursday evening.  State police were called to a wooded area in Herrick Township just before 5 p.m. on May 4 for reports of a person with a handgun, Trooper William Evans wrote in a release.  Troopers made contact with the boy and gave "numerous verbal orders for (him) to drop the weapon," authorities said. Police claimed the boy "did not comply" and "presented himself as an imminent threat to the responding troopers."  One trooper fired at the boy, and he w…

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by Mac Bullock