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Following two fatal police shootings in Lehigh Valley region, officials weigh crisis programs to avert tragedy

The circumstances of a fatal Catasauqua police shooting are similar to scenarios that play out across the country with distressing regularity. People suffering mental health crises, sometimes threatening suicide with a deadly weapon, end up in a standoff with police. Are crisis intervention programs the answer?

Here s what s trending for April 7 | NewsRadio 790 WAEB

Apr 7, 2021 The Pennsylvania Department of Health added 4255 new cases of coronavirus to the state s overall total, which is now 1,049,655 since the pandemic began more than one year ago. 37 new deaths attributed to COVID-19 were also reported by the department, leaving the state s count at 25,237. 2247 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 427 of whom are in the intensive care unit. Lindsey Mauldin, with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, says the state s COVID-19 vaccination program is kicking into gear. So far, more than 35-percent of the state s eligible population has received at least one dose. That s three percentage points above the national average of 32-percent, Mauldin says. That figures out to more than 5.7-million vaccinations. More than 2-million Pennsylvanians are considered to be fully vaccinated. About 35-percent of eligible Pennsylvanians have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

DA: Officer justified in shooting armed man in basement

DA: Officer justified in shooting armed man in basement April 6, 2021 GMT CATASAUQUA, Pa. (AP) A prosecutor has ruled that a police officer was justified in shooting and killing an armed man in the basement of an eastern Pennsylvania home earlier this year. Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said Tuesday the officer had a “clearly reasonable” belief that deadly force was needed to protect himself and other officers from death or serious injury when he opened fire on 27-year-old Ryan Shirey. Authorities said Shirey and his father were in the Catasauqua home on Feb. 19 along with his ex-girlfriend, who is a caretaker for Shirey’s mother. The ex-girlfriend called police during an argument the older man described as “heated,” Martin said earlier.

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