Troopers fatally shot a man after they entered a home near Myerstown before dawn Wednesday to serve a search warrant related to a child pornography investigation, state police said.<\/p>\n
John W. McDowell, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene in the first block of Gable Drive in Jackson Township by the Lebanon County coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
According to a release:<\/p>\n
Troopers attempted to serve the warrant at the residence, which is about 5 miles west of the Berks County line, about 6 a.m. When they entered, they were confronted by McDowell \u201cin a manner which resulted in members discharging their firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n
No troopers were injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the active investigation, no additional details of the incident will be released at this time,\u201d the release stated. \u201cIn accordance with standard Pennsylvania State Police policy, the involved troopers have been placed on administrative duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Police, Troop L, Major Case Team is investigating with the assistance of the state attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers fatally shot a man after they entered a home near Myerstown before dawn Wednesday to serve a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-102149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}