Manhunt Underway for Handcuffed Suspect Who Shot Officer Three Times
On 12/21/20 at 12:14 PM EST
A manhunt is underway for an armed and dangerous suspect who shot an officer three times outside a police station in Pennsylvania.
Officer Gerasimos Athans, a four-year veteran of the McKeesport Police Department, was shot in the neck and torso on Sunday by a suspect who was being transported to the city s police station.
Athans, 32, is expected to be discharged from the hospital in the coming days, Allegheny County Police Supt. Coleman McDonough said Monday.
The Allegheny County Police Department identified the suspect in the shooting as 22-year-old Koby Lee Francis. He was still in handcuffs when he fled the scene and remained at large on Monday, McDonough said.
Manhunt underway after handcuffed Pennsylvania suspect shoots police officer three times, flees KATE FELDMAN
A 22-year-old man taken into custody for a parole violation allegedly shot his arresting officer three times outside the police station then fled the scene, all while still handcuffed.
The manhunt continues Monday morning for Koby Lee Francis and the 32-year-old officer, who has not been publicly identified, remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Francis was arrested outside a McKeesport residence around 4 p.m. Sunday for violating a protection from abuse order issued barely an hour earlier. Officers confiscated a gun from his car, where he was found, but no other weapons were discovered when they searched him as part of the arrest.