{"id":109413,"date":"2026-02-09T21:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:14:48","slug":"son-shoots-father-dead-in-dunmore-lackawanna-da-says-self-defense-claim-is-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109413\/","title":{"rendered":"Son shoots father dead in Dunmore, Lackawanna DA says. Self-defense claim is probed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deceased brandished a gun at his family, the DA said. A shot rang out soon after.<\/p>\n<p>DUNMORE, Pa. \u2014 A man killed his father Sunday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> and authorities are investigating whether it was done in self-defense, District Attorney Brian Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was identified as Frederick Zantowsky Jr., 47. He died at Geisinger Community Medical Center not long after he was wounded in a shooting at a home on the 400 block of Mortimer Street in Dunmore. Borough patrol officers responded there just after 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Zantowsky&#8217;s son, who was not publicly identified by the police, was interviewed by detective, cooperated and was released pending more investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher said they are evaluating whether the shooter acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Zantowsky showed signs of intoxication during a family gathering, brandished a gun and pointed it at his son and others in the family, including an 8-year-old boy, Gallagher said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deceased&#8217;s son fired his own weapon one time, striking the victim,&#8221; Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities said they do not think the public is in any danger.<\/p>\n<p>The Lackawanna County Coroner&#8217;s Office was working to determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deceased brandished a gun at his family, the DA said. A shot rang out soon after. DUNMORE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-109413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413","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=109413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}