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Post by Sher on May 28, 2005 11:14:14 GMT -5
A man who is accused of stabbing a Mountville woman in her home is in custody.
Police found Birge Selby in a van along Witmer Road in East Lampeter Township at about 3 a.m. Friday.
Selby is accused of stabbing Barbara Beatty nine times with a steak knife last week.
Beatty is recovering in a hospital.
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Post by Sher on Jun 17, 2005 9:23:03 GMT -5
LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A 12-year-old Dauphin County boy admitted he shot a 6-year-old boy last month.
The boy appeared in court Wednesday and was sentenced to a juvenile detention facility in York.
He will remain at the Paradise School for Boys and receive psychiatric treatment.
His family was also ordered to pay any out-of-pocket medical expenses that the victim's family may have.
The 6-year-old lost a kidney and part of his intestines in the May 16 shooting at a Lower Paxton Township apartment complex.
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Post by Sher on Jun 19, 2005 18:20:09 GMT -5
SELLERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who had recently left a mental health facility killed his wife after an argument and was shot to death by the couple's 15-year-old son, police said.
"I really can't put into words the tragedy this is for the boys that are involved in this," Pennridge Regional Police Chief David Mettin said.
The 15-year-old son and his teen-age brother were awakened Saturday by their parents arguing at their home in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, said Mettin and prosecutor Diane E. Gibbons.
"They came out of their respective bedrooms, they saw that their father had a knife to the throat of their mother," Gibbons said.
The boys got two unloaded shotguns from the house and confronted their father, Andrew Detwiler, "told the father to leave, to get out, to leave Mom alone," Mettin said.
However, Detwiler grabbed one of the shotguns, went to the garage to load it and returned to the house, where he fired through a window and hit his wife, Suzanne Detwiler, on a deck outside, they said.
The 15-year-old, who had loaded his shotgun, then shot his father as he was bending over his wife and raising his gun again, the authorities said.
The boy, who ran to a neighbor's house in tears, won't be charged, Gibbons said.
"Both boys acted with absolute courageousness and heroicism in acting in an attempt to save the life of their mother," Gibbons said.
The boys' names were not released because of their ages.
Gibbons said Detwiler, 44, had voluntary committed himself for mental health treatment but signed himself out sometime last week.
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Post by Sher on Aug 2, 2005 18:49:36 GMT -5
PITTSBURGH -- A man who spent 19 years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit was released from prison yesterday after new DNA tests cleared him.
Friends and family broke into applause when a county judge dismissed charges against Thomas Doswell. About 30 minutes later, Doswell walked out of the county jail a free man - expressing thanks, not bitterness.
"I'm thankful to be home," he told The Associated Press from his mother's house. "I'm thankful justice has been served. The court system is not perfect, but it works."
Doswell, 46, was convicted in the 1986 rape of a 48-year-old woman in Pittsburgh. He was sentenced to 13 to 26 years in prison and was denied parole four times because he refused to accept responsibility for the crime.
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