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TWO Hour Terror: Mom, Son, 5, Held Hostage During Armed Burglary, Pennsylvania State Police Say
A Williamstown man allegedly held a 23-year-old woman and her 5-year-old son hostage with a gun during a burglary overnight, according to police.
Armed with a handgun, 23-year-old Matthew Ronald Lentz broke into a home in the 1100 block of Spectown Road in Lykens on Wednesday, Nov. 16 around 2 a.m., according to a release by Pennsylvania state police.
For approximately two hours and 15 minutes, he held them, hostage, while threatening to kill them, as explained in the release.
Lentz fired the gun inside the home around 4:15 a.m.—then he attempted to flee but state pol…
