3 women honored for trying to help children involved in fatal shootings
Updated May 11, 2021;
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Avon Burton was leaving a local store last year when she came across a naked 16-year-old boy being chased by a sex offender.
She heard the boy shouting, “Help!” Then she saw a gunman standing over the boy in the middle of the street.
“We watch a grown man straddle a young kid and load bullets into his body,” she said Tuesday, recalling the dreadful memory. “It was horrific that day, as a mother.”
But Burton kept her wits about her “with remarkable courage,” and helped point Harrisburg police officers in the right direction where the sex offender was attempting to escape. He was running down an alley way in Allison Hill after the fatal shooting of Kyan King on Aug. 29.
Man injured during Monday night shooting in Harrisburg
Updated May 04, 2021;
Harrisburg police are seeking information about a Monday night shooting they say left one man injured.
Police said they met the man around 10:30 p.m. at a Cumberland Road apartment, where he told authorities he was shot earlier that night in the area of North 15th and Herr Streets.
The man’s injuries were non-life-threatening and he was treated at a local hospital, police said.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Harrisburg Bureau of Police at 717-558-6900, or submit a tip through CrimeWatch.
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Central Pa. police work on change after George Floyd’s murder, but activists hope for more
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A bandshell showcase, featuring live performances and vendors, was held at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg on May 2, 2021. Franky Morton, 4, gets a police bag from Blake Lynch, Director of Community Relations for Harrisburg Bureau of Police. Lynch, who attended with Police Commissioner Thomas Carter, says the appearance gives us an opportunity to be out in the community in a positive way.
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The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the subsequent trial and conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, has prompted police departments across the country to examine their policies and practices. Central Pennsylvania is no exception.
Chauvin’s guilty verdict met with satisfaction, and lots of relief, in Harrisburg’s Allison Hill
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Otis Harrison, working at his OD s Fish House restaurant on Market Street, was among those Harrisburg residents taking quiet satisfaction in Derek Chauvin s murder conviction Tuesday night.
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HARRISBURG - As much as the videos of George Floyd’s death lit a fuse of anger and protest over repeated instances of Black men dying at the hands of police officers last summer, the instant aftermath of the conviction of Floyd’s killer Tuesday evening seemed to fall like a balm on Harrisburg and its residents.
Updated: 1:19 PM EDT Apr 19, 2021 Crews resumed their search Monday for a woman who witnesses saw struggling in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg on Sunday.Crews went to the area near the City Island Bath House just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses had reported seeing the woman alone in the middle of the river.Harrisburg Bureau of Fire, the leading agency in the search, immediately called for additional resources, including Harrisburg River Rescue with their sonar equipment, a drone and a state police helicopter.Officials say the area they are searching is about 6 feet deep and the water temperature is in the 50s. The water is also very muddy.Because the current is so fast, divers had difficulty staying in one area. So, they tried one last time with more weight, which would allow them to dive deeper and stay down longer. But Sunday s search came up with nothing.