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PA 15-Year-Old Claiming Man Raped GF Kills Him Using Dad's Gun: Affidavit PA 15-Year-Old Claiming Man Raped GF Kills Him Using Dad's Gun: Affidavit
PA 15-Year-Old Claiming Man Raped GF Kills Him Using Dad's Gun: Affidavit "He's a rapist!"  That's what police say a 15-year-old boy yelled moments after fatally shooting a 39-year-old man in Pottstown using his dad's gun on Wednesday, Nov. 22, authorities announced the following weekend.  Thomas James Niarhos, of Stowe, has been charged with first-degree murder in the midday killing of Jeremiah "Jay" Waylon Hawkins, near the Pottstown Train Station on South Hanover Street, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. The teen boy was seen loitering in the same area, Security Plaza, just before 6 a.m., on July 13, according …

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by Cecilia Levine & Jillian Pikora
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Witnesses Hold Down Shooter After Broad Daylight Killing In Montco: DA Witnesses Hold Down Shooter After Broad Daylight Killing In Montco: DA
Witnesses Hold Down Shooter After Broad Daylight Killing In Montco: DA A group of bystanders restrained a suspected killer in Pottstown on Friday afternoon and held him down until police arrived, said the District Attorney's Office.  A man was shot and killed just after 12 p.m. on Nov. 22 on South Hanover Street near the Pottstown Train Station, said prosecutors.  Police arrived to find a group of witnesses holding down the alleged shooter near the railroad tracks, according to officials.  The victim has been identified but authorities are withholding his name until loved ones are notified, the DA said. Investigators believe he was shot at…

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by Mac Bullock