Now, an investigation is underway to determine the origin of the bullet that took Christian Santiago’s life.<\/p>\n
Santiago displayed a rifle from the driver’s-side window after the pursuit ended by the North Scranton Expressway, and the state police said they heard a gunshot from inside his car. The troopers who stopped him fired their guns into the car at the sound of the shot<\/p>\n
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The police had been looking for Santiago since earlier Monday, when Scranton officers took a report that the 20-year-old stole a .30-06 rifle from a relative’s home. Santiago sent a family member a photograph of the rifle and ammunition, and his family obtained a warrant to commit him to a mental health institution.<\/p>\n
The city police found Santiago, but he fled in a black Ford Focus.<\/p>\n
The state police found the car again at the Penn Can Travel Plaza in Harford at 8:37 p.m. Santiago fled south on Interstate 81 through Lackawanna County until they managed to disable his car by the North Scranton Expressway.<\/p>\n
With the Ford stopped, the state police said Santiago displayed a rifle from the driver’s-side window. A gunshot cracked, and police fired a volley into the car in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Santiago was removed from the car by members of the state police’s Special Emergency Response Team, the city police’s Special Operations Group, and Lackawanna County SWAT.<\/p>\n
Santiago died at Geisinger Community Medical Center. The state police are investigating the origin of the gunshot that caused his fatal injury.<\/p>\n
They said there is no danger to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Monday night pursuit through Lackawanna County ended with the pursued man’s death. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-282020","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\/282020","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=282020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}