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19-Year-Old Charged With Shooting Into Easton Home: Authorities 19-Year-Old Charged With Shooting Into Easton Home: Authorities
19-Year-Old Charged With Shooting Into Easton Home: Authorities A suspect is in police custody for firing a gun at an occupied home in Easton, officials said Thursday, July 11.  Jaishaun Wright-White, 19, was arrested at his S. 12th Street home, according to city police.  The shooting happened in broad daylight on Monday afternoon, July 1, authorities said previously. A masked suspect reportedly fired multiple rounds into a home on the 1200 block of Spruce Street in what police have described as a targeted attack.  Wright-White is charged with discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure and related counts and is being held on …

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by Mac Bullock
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Pair Hurt In Shooting Incident At Berks County Bar, Say State Police Pair Hurt In Shooting Incident At Berks County Bar, Say State Police
Pair Hurt In Shooting Incident At Berks County Bar, Say State Police First responders were called to a bar in Hamburg early Sunday morning after two people were struck by gunfire, according to state police.  It happened at Pappy T's Pub and Lounge, 50 Industrial Drive, around 1 a.m. on Nov. 12, said troopers.  Thirty-seven-year-old Thomas Fronina took out a .380-caliber handgun to show another bar patron and "discharged a single round towards the floor," police said.  A 43-year-old woman was hit in the leg and taken to Reading Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while a 45-year-old man was hit in the ankle with a bullet fragment…

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by Mac Bullock
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Reading Carjackers Fired Gun During Police Chase, Cops Say Reading Carjackers Fired Gun During Police Chase, Cops Say
Reading Carjackers Fired Gun During Police Chase, Cops Say Two suspects are still at large after an armed carjacking in Reading late on Monday, June 5, say authorities.  City police were alerted to a car theft by four men around 10:15 p.m., they said in a release. A few hours later, around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 6, officers found the stolen car with all four suspects inside, the department said.  Authorities tried to pull the car over and a brief chase ensued before the suspects ran from the vehicle on foot, per the release. Officers searched the area and arrested two of the men, they added.  During the chase, police said one of…

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by Mac Bullock
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Road Rage Driver Opens Fire On Schuylkill Expressway, Troopers Say Road Rage Driver Opens Fire On Schuylkill Expressway, Troopers Say
Road Rage Driver Opens Fire On Schuylkill Expressway, Troopers Say State police are searching for the driver of a Mustang who they say fired a gun at another motorist on the Schuylkill Expressway during a road rage incident.  It happened in the eastbound lanes on I-76 near the 30th Street Station, Trooper Shyeasha Ayala wrote in a release. State police were called about a car accident just after 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2.  At the scene, the driver of a crashed vehicle said he was fleeing gunfire from a red Ford Mustang when he lost control of his car. Troopers searched the highway and recovered several shell casings from the road, accordin…

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by Mac Bullock
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Bucks Teen Opened Fire On Levittown Home, Police Claim Bucks Teen Opened Fire On Levittown Home, Police Claim
Bucks Teen Opened Fire On Levittown Home, Police Claim A Bucks County teen faces criminal charges after police say he unloaded a firearm at a home in Levittown while people were inside.  It happened last August on the 100 block of Willow Drive, said Falls Township police in a statement. Seven months later, on Friday, March 10, the department arrested Gavin Stanec, now 19, of Levittown, and charged him with the shooting.  Police did not report any injuries as a result of the incident.  Stanec was booked at a Bucks County jail on a litany of felony charges including eight counts of aggravated assault, eight more counts of firing a…

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by Mac Bullock
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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
Police & Fire
Firearm Discharges Through Restaurant Booth In Lehigh County, Couple Flees: Police Firearm Discharges Through Restaurant Booth In Lehigh County, Couple Flees: Police
Firearm Discharges Through Restaurant Booth In Lehigh County, Couple Flees: Police Police are searching for a couple who fled a restaurant after a firearm discharged into a restaurant booth they were sitting at in Lehigh County. The male was sitting in a booth with a female when the firearm was discharged, traveling through the seat cushion and into the wooden wall of the booth at Miller's Ale House in Hanover Township Dec. 28 around 9:50 p.m., PA State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky said. The couple then left the restaurant and fled the scene in an unknown direction. There were no injuries reported. The unidentified male is described as approximately 5’9”, heavy se…

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by Cecilia Levine