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Shot Fired From PA Trooper's Pistol After Pursuit Led By Man Intimidating Victim: Police Shot Fired From PA Trooper's Pistol After Pursuit Led By Man Intimidating Victim: Police
Shot Fired From PA Trooper's Pistol After Pursuit Led By Man Intimidating Victim: Police A single shot was fired from a PA State Trooper's weapon while arresting a man wanted for intimidating a victim hours after being served with a protection from abuse order in Franklin County, police said. Brett Daniel Crone, 43, of Greencastle, was served with the order sometime Saturday, July 27, PSP Trooper Megan Frazer said. Troopers were called around 8:40 p.m. on reports of Crone intimidating a victim, Frazer said. Troopers saw Crone driving near Dresden Circle and Wedgewood Driver in Antrim Township, and tried to pull him over, Frazer said. Crone failed to stop and a pursuit was init…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Sleeping Baby Shot At By Lititz 'Squirrel' Hunter: Police Sleeping Baby Shot At By Lititz 'Squirrel' Hunter: Police
Sleeping Baby Shot At By Lititz 'Squirrel' Hunter: Police A 24-year-old man shooting at a squirrel fired his gun into a nursery where a baby was sleeping in its crib, authorities announced in a release on Monday, March 6, 2023.  Dakota Leonel Johnson-Ortiz of 6 Windwood Place, Lititz later admitted to shooting a squirrel in the area at the same time the shot was heard, according to the release.  A neighbor heard a gunshot and told a parent living in the 100 block of Guilder Place in Warwick Township who called the police after they entered their sleeping baby's nursery and found debris on the floor as well as "dust and debris f…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Lancaster Man Charged In Shooting Of Ex-GF, 2-Year-Old Son In Chester County Lancaster Man Charged In Shooting Of Ex-GF, 2-Year-Old Son In Chester County
Lancaster Man Charged In Shooting Of Ex-GF, 2-Year-Old Son In Chester County A Lancaster County man was arrested on multiple charges including attempted murder after shooting his ex-girlfriend and her two-year-old son over the weekend in Chester County, authorities said. Troopers were called around 10 p.m. Sunday to the 400 block of Main Street in Atglen Borough on a report of a shooting, where they found the woman with a gunshot wound to the leg, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Kevin S. Kochka said. She was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, police said. Authorities said that the woman's four children were inside the home at the time of the shooting.…

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by Nicole Acosta