GREAT BEND TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA CO. \u2014 A Hallstead man has been charged with homicide after Pennsylvania State Police say three people were found shot to death inside a Susquehanna County home Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Troopers responded around 6 p.m. to a residence in the 1300 block of Baptist Hill Road in Great Bend Township for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n
According to state police, troopers discovered three deceased people inside the home. Investigators have not yet released the victims’ identities as authorities continue notifying next of kin.<\/p>\n
Police said Garrett Austin Johnson, 29, of Hallstead, was taken into custody a short distance from the residence. Investigators also recovered the firearm they believe was used in the killings.<\/p>\n
Johnson has been charged with three counts of criminal homicide. He also faces charges of simple assault, resisting arrest and recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Jodi Cordner and committed to the Lackawanna County Prison without bail.<\/p>\n
The investigation is being led by the Pennsylvania State Police Troop R Major Case Team with assistance from the Forensic Services Unit, Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Specialist (CARS) Unit and the Susquehanna County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
State police said additional information, including the identities of the victims, will be released after all family members have been notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREAT BEND TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA CO. \u2014 A Hallstead man has been charged with homicide after Pennsylvania State Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-243283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243283","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=243283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}