Investigators in Pennsylvania’s capital are looking for a person of interest in the murder of a woman found dead last week in a city park along the Susquehanna River. Police have not released the name of the woman, who died of “traumatic injuries” and was found shortly before noon on December 22 in Harrisburg’s Sunken …
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a 39-year-old man and charged him with kidnapping his girlfriend and her two sons and threatening to kill them. Investigators said Kenneth D. Smiley broke into the girlfriend’s apartment early Thursday morning and forced her and her children into a car at knifepoint. State police issued an Amber Alert for …
A Pennsylvania man already charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child after his 5-year-old daughter was found unresponsive has now been charged with murder in the girl’s death. An autopsy completed on Thursday found multiple internal injuries and signs of strangulation, leading to the upgraded charge. Gregory E. Woods Jr, 25, …
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly doused a 14-year-old girl with lighter fluid and threatened to set her on fire. Tysheda Mitchell, 34, was arrested Thursday for her role in the September 27 incident, PennLive reported. Harrisburg police officers were dispatched to the scene just before 9 p.m. that …
There’s “no doubt” a gunman who fired at police in several locations in the state capital, wounding one of them before they shot and killed him, was targeting police officers, a prosecutor said. Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty fired at a Harrisburg police officer on Friday afternoon and later at a state trooper, wounding her before pursuing …
