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STANDOFF: 84-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Hours-Long Barricade Situation In PA STANDOFF: 84-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Hours-Long Barricade Situation In PA
Standoff: 84-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Hours-Long Barricade Situation In PA An 84-year-old woman is facing multiple charges after an hours-long standoff with police in Pennsylvania, they said. West Whiteland officers went to serve a mental health warrant to Laraine Whayland at a home on Grubbs Mill Road on Thursday, Sept. 28, when she threatened the officers, West Whiteland Police Sgt. Scott Pezick said. ERT Officers were able to safely grab Whayland and remove her from the house after a nearly four-hour standoff, Pezick said. Whayland was taken to the hospital and charged with terroristic threats, possessing instruments of crime, recklessly endangering another pe…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Girl Orphaned: MD Man Shot PA Mom Before Turning Gun On Himself Girl Orphaned: MD Man Shot PA Mom Before Turning Gun On Himself
Girl Orphaned: MD Man Shot PA Mom Before Turning Gun On Himself A police standoff in York County has ended with a murder-suicide, York County Coroner Pam Gay told Daily Voice.  A 31-year-old Prince George's, Maryland resident Devon Elias shot 29-year-old Megan Caitlyn Saunders in the chest before shooting himself in the head, around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, according to the York County Coroner's office. Chief Deputy Coroner Tania Zech was called to the scene to investigate and certify the deaths at 2:47 p.m. This incident is from an "apparent domestic incident" and the time of death was recorded as 3:35 p.m., as stated in the coroner's release…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Eviction Turned 'Active Shooting' Ends With Man Dead, Deputy Injured In Pittsburgh (UPDATE) Eviction Turned 'Active Shooting' Ends With Man Dead, Deputy Injured In Pittsburgh (UPDATE)
Eviction Turned 'Active Shooting' Ends With Man Dead, Deputy Injured In Pittsburgh (Update) Sheriff's deputies were issuing an eviction notice when someone inside the home opened fire on Wednesday morning, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. William 'Bill' Hardison was found shot dead inside his home after he fired at police and SWAT multiple times, according to a police statement at a press conference.  Around 11 a.m. PPS first issued an alert about the "active shooting situation in the city's Garfield neighborhood. The public was asked to avoid the 4800 block of Broad Street and North Mathilda Street. One deputy has been injured in the first round of shooting, but he was …

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle
Suspect Airlifted, Charged With Attempted Homicide In Hours-Long PA Standoff With Sniper Rifle A knife attack in Pennsylvania led to an hours-long standoff involving a sniper rifle before police airlifted the suspect to a trauma center and charged him with criminal attempt to commit homicide. Mack Antonoff, 62, has been charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, and reckless endangerment, Pocono Mountain Regional Police said. Officers responding to a home on the 400 block of Cedar Drive in Long Pond found that Antonoff had tried to stab a woman several times on Thursday, Oct. 20, the department said. The woman suffered minor injuries but wa…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Details Released In Hours-Long Lancaster Standoff That Killed Female With Shot To Head: DA Details Released In Hours-Long Lancaster Standoff That Killed Female With Shot To Head: DA
Details Released In Hours-Long Lancaster Standoff That Killed Female With Shot To Head: DA A female was found dead inside of a Lancaster County home where a gunman — who was ultimately arrested — refused to back down in an hours-long standoff with police early Sunday, Sept. 11, authorities said. Police were called to the 2000 block of Swarr Run Road on reports of a shooting involving a domestic violence incident around 1:30 a.m. the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office said. When police arrived, the suspect shot at officers and barricaded himself inside an apartment at the Park City Apartments, the DA said. Lancaster County SERT responded at approximately 2:30 a.…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Man Who Shot At Officers Over Mask Refusal Dies At Lehigh County Jail Man Who Shot At Officers Over Mask Refusal Dies At Lehigh County Jail
Man Who Shot At Officers Over Mask Refusal Dies At Lehigh County Jail A man who shot at officers nearly two years ago for refusing to wear a mask has died at the Lehigh County Jail, authorities said. Adam Zaborowski, 37, was found unresponsive in his cell early Friday, April 1, officials said. He was pronounced dead at 7:26 a.m., in the St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office said. Zaborowski was charged with attempted homicide in the August 2020 shooting at Cigar International in Bethlehem, when he refused to wear a mask inside the business and shot the cashier, The Washington Post reports. He fled the sce…

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by Nicole Acosta
News
2.5-Hour Police Standoff Ends In PA Man's Suicide 2.5-Hour Police Standoff Ends In PA Man's Suicide
2.5-Hour Police Standoff Ends In PA Man's Suicide A welfare-check turned standoff in central Pennsylvania came to a terrible conclusion on Thursday night, police say. A 24-year-old man took his own life in a home in the 500 block of Bull Run Road in Lower Windsor Township on Mar. 24, area police report. The unnamed man was believed to be having emotional issues, so his friends asked the "department to check on his welfare," the release states. Upon arrival, officers tried to contact him but when they entered the home the officers heard a gunshot on the second floor, according to the release. After that, "other police agencies and the Y…

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by Daily Voice
Police & Fire
Details Released In 6-Hour Chester County Police Standoff Details Released In 6-Hour Chester County Police Standoff
Details Released In 6-Hour Chester County Police Standoff A six-hour standoff with police Monday led to the arrest of an Exton man who shot at officers, authorities said. Christopher Smith, 47, has been charged with multiple counts of attempted homicide, terroristic threats, recklessly endangering another person, and related offenses, the Chester County District Attorney's Office said in a Wednesday news release. He was being uncooperative with West Whiteland police, who arrived at the home on the unit block of Buttonwood Drive around 4:30 p.m. to serve a search warrant, police said. When Smith finally acknowledged the cops, he threaten…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Gunman Killed In Jersey Shore Shootout With Police Identified Gunman Killed In Jersey Shore Shootout With Police Identified
Gunman Killed In Jersey Shore Shootout With Police Identified UPDATE: Authorities on Wednesday identified the out-of-state man who charged at police and was gunned down after he shot and wounded a detective trying to serve a warrant in Long Branch last week. Mark D. Walker II, 34, of Woodbridge, Va. shot the detective in the leg before barricading himself inside the Chelsea Avenue apartment last Friday, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Walker was shot and killed after a fire broke out in the house and he came out shooting nearly nine hours later, multiple sources said. The wounded Monmouth County prosecutor's detective was wor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Dad Wanted In Drug Deal Sparks SWAT Standoff in Pennsylvania Dad Wanted In Drug Deal Sparks SWAT Standoff in Pennsylvania
Dad Wanted In Drug Deal Sparks SWAT Standoff in Pennsylvania A father of four and wanted criminal attempted to deliver drugs to juveniles and ended up in a standoff on Tuesday, according to police in Cumberland County. Lower Allen Township police were called to a report of a wanted person in an apartment in the 2100 Block of Cedar Run Drive around 3:30 p.m. Upon arrival it became clear that the man was there to deliver drugs to one or more juveniles who were also reportedly in the residence. The suspect was later identified as JC Bodkins, 35, of Mechanicsburg. Bodkins was wanted for numerous traffic offenses as well as possession with intent to del…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Tinder Date With PA Fugitive Woman Feared Would Kill Her, Ends In Standoff In South Carolina Tinder Date With PA Fugitive Woman Feared Would Kill Her, Ends In Standoff In South Carolina
Tinder Date With PA Fugitive Woman Feared Would Kill Her, Ends In Standoff In South Carolina What do a Lancaster County man, Tinder and a standoff have in common? Corry Brooks, 32, of Lancaster, who has been on the run from police since June 25 when he tried to ram police with a car. After a Tinder date went wrong in South Carolina he was apprehended. The Tinder date ended in a more than two-hour-long police standoff at a home on University Forest Drive near Conway, South Carolina on Sunday around 2 p.m., according to Horry County police. After taking Brooks back to her home under unknown circumstances, the South Carolina woman texted her ex-boyfriend who notified police. "He had…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Officer Justified In Shooting Gunman During Standoff Says Lancaster DA Officer Justified In Shooting Gunman During Standoff Says Lancaster DA
Officer Justified In Shooting Gunman During Standoff Says Lancaster DA The police officer who shot at a man during a standoff in West Hempfield Township was ruled as “justified in discharging his weapon,” by Lancaster County District Attorney. The standoff started after a woman called 911 reporting when she woke up, a man was standing next to her with a rifle in one hand and a handgun in another on Jan. 3 at 11:45 a.m.according to the DA's release. The woman told dispatchers that the man then loaded the rifle and pointed it at her and had made threats to harm himself. West Hempfield officers came to the home on Goldfinch Drive, Columbia and spoke with the wom…

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by Jillian Pikora