Three people were found dead in a Pennsylvania home on Monday after a standoff that ended with one person in custody.
PhillyBurbs.com reported that 55-year-old Kevin Castiglia had been arrested and charged with terroristic threats, simple assault, possession of an instrument, and reckless endangering.
He has not been charged with the deaths of his parents Judith, 84, and Fred Castiglia, 90, or his sister Deborah, 53. All three were found dead in the home, court documents say.
The documents say that Deborah Castiglia’s boyfriend had not heard from her since Saturday, and on Sunday he went to her home in Doylestown but did not find her. He then drove to her parents’ home and saw her vehicle in the drive.
The documents say he knocked at the door but got no answer and left after observing the lights off. On Monday, he went back to the home and this time was met at the door by Kevin Castiglia, who was wearing a bathrobe. The boyfriend asked to speak with Deborah, and her brother told him she had probably gone on vacation.
Then Kevin Castiglia brandished a “large Psycho-type chef’s knife” at the boyfriend and said, “Don’t ever come here again or I will kill you.”
The boyfriend left and called police.
Police arrived and initially got no answer to their knocks at the door, but eventually Castiglia answer the door, still wearing the bathrobe and now armed with two knives.
Castiglia spoke incoherently, the documents say, and when he pointed the knives at the officers, they deployed tasers unsuccessfully. Castiglia pulled the taser probes out of his body, slammed the door shut and locked it, the documents say.
Members of the South Central Emergency Response Team were called to the scene and made forced entry, finding Deborah Castiglia dead in the kitchen. Her parents were dead in the home’s lower level.
They located Kevin Castiglia, still armed with knives, who ran to a second floor bedroom where he barricaded himself.
He was eventually taken into custody after an hours-long standoff later Monday night.
Police said charges against him will likely be upgraded.
Property records show that the family had been longtime members of the community, living there since 1970.
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