A Pennsylvania man already on police radar for domestic violence shot his ex-girlfriend and a man who tried to intervene Thursday morning before turning the gun on himself. Stacie Vereen and Travis Ritter, who tried to disarm the gunman, were taken to Reading Hospital for treatment, but Vereen was transferred to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center …
A 41-year-old woman was shot while sitting in a car early Sunday morning in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood. Police found the woman lying in the street when they responded at about 5 a.m., WTXF reported. She was shot three times in the neck and should and was transported to a hospital in critical condition. No …
Two members of a Pennsylvania fire company have been suspended after a teenage firefighter told police they had been sexually assaulted by a senior member of the company. Police sources told KYW that the accuser reported the alleged assault to a high-level member of the Folcroft Fire Company but the person did not call law …
Philadelphia police have solved at least one part of a 65-year-old mystery — they have identified a young boy found dead and stuffed into a box in the city in 1957. Investigators used DNA and intricate genealogical sleuthing to uncover the boy’s name, KYW reports, and criminal charges may be filed in his death. Philadelphia …
A 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy has been charged with murder after he allegedly confessed during an Instagram video chat to a friend. The Bensalem Police Department said it received a call Friday afternoon from a woman who said Joshua Cooper had engaged her daughter in a video chat, telling her that he’d just killed someone. Cooper …
A 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy, already charged with aggravated assault in the shooting death last month of his 8th-grader girlfriend, has now been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Erie police say Riley R. Shearer “unintentionally” killed 15-year-old Audrey Maria Kellogg but acted with recklessness or gross negligence, according to the Erie Times-News. Kellogg died from a gunshot …
Eleven Temple University students were robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning at an off-campus apartment in Philadelphia. Police said they were called to the building at about 7 a.m., where they learned that the six women residents of the apartment were joined by three of their boyfriends and two more women were were sleeping over. …
Three ex-Pennsylvania police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 counts each of reckless endangerment in a shooting that left an 8-year-old girl dead. Sean Dolan, 26; Devon Smith, 35; and Brian Devaney, 42, took a plea deal that saw charges of manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter dismissed, NBC News reported. Prosecutors said the deal was reached …
A Pennsylvania man shot and killed three people Saturday morning before he was killed in a shootout with state troopers. Lycoming County officials said that Brian Taylor, 54, killed his wife, 60-year-old Linda Taylor, during a domestic altercation at their home, then fled along Route 118 toward his sister’s house nearby, shooting a passing truck …
A Pennsylvania man shot and killed another man Saturday night in an argument over hunting. Pennsylvania police said that David Heathcote told troopers he shot the other man, identified as Robert Wingard, after the two argued and Wingard threatened to shoot Heathcote’s daughter, KDKA reported. At that point, police said, Heathcote shot Wingard, who died …
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 faces multiple charges in the alleged child abuse of his 6-year-old daughter, including leaving her in a hole in the backyard overnight. A criminal complaint against 50-year-old John Edward Kraft says that Greene County Children and Youth Services met with the girl initially on September 21, when they found severe bruising all …
