KARTHAUS â A Karthaus woman is homeless after her home was destroyed on Christmas Day when law enforcement used force to gain access to the residence in an attempt to apprehend her son who had been threatening to harm her and police.
LuAnn Quick, 63, had contacted authorities earlier in the day on Christmas Eve because her son, Shannon D. Quick, 46, had recently exhibited disturbing mental health issues.
Shannon Quick was apprehended by Clearfield-based state police after a 12-hour standoff in the early hours of Christmas Day at the residence he shared with his mother and nephew on the 100-block of Potter Street in Karthaus Township
with my charge nurse sally and other nurse manager shannon and, you know, shannon asked me where do we go now? and i just thought, okay, well, we re going to hold on and we ll sort that out after this passes. that is what happened. could you feel the storm when it hit? there were different areas where patients were. we have a lot of community members looking for shelter. there was a patient care area where the actual patients were that were also in the central portion of the building. like i said, i came down the stairs after seeing the tornado through the windows, i came down the stairs, rushed into the hallway which is the in central hallway in the building, which is also one of the safe zones, got behind the fire doors and, you know, as all that was happening you could feel, i mean you could already feel the wind coming in through the front doors, glass had broken out as i was stepping out of the stairwell and got behind the door and held on. it was a double door, double fire do
legos. we met janae hornsby s dad. he called her a ball of energy and love. can t believe she is gone. neither can her cousin who tells her mom, i don t want to sound crazy, but she is going to call me. her dad still hopes that somehow his daughter may still be alive, but he knows she is not. the first thing people noticed about sydney marie angle was her eyes and smile. she loved softball, pitched her first game recently. she loved her dog, charlie. she loved her classmates at plaza to we ares and they loved her. sydney angle 9 years old. seven can kids died, ten in all. shannon quick, leaves behind two sons, 8 and 13 years old. they were all together when the storm hit. the 8-year-old was hurt, as well. so was his grandmother, shann shannon s mom, joy.
when did you find out that she d passed away? while the emt guy was over there, she d been holding onto his pant leg. he was standing next to her, and she had her fingers gripping his pant leg and kept talking to her. all of a sudden her arm went limp. and some military guy had taken his shirt off and had that over her chest to kind of keep her warm and he pulled it up over her face. kept telling him she wasn t gone, she was breathing. so sad. i spoke to her yesterday. she s recovering in the hospital, her daughter, shannon quick, died in front of her in