Police in Lancaster County have charged a local man with criminal homicide and burglary after he allegedly shot another man inside a residence on North Third Street in Columbia.
Mario Casanova-Lanza, 39, of Lancaster, is now in police custody, according to a news release from Columbia Borough Police.
Police allege that Casanova-Lanza shot and killed Parrish Thaxton, a 36-year-old from the Bronx, N.Y.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/02/lancaster_police_charge_local.html
Lancaster County fatal shooting suspect in custody | Lancaster News – WGAL Home
Police in Lancaster County have the suspect in a Wednesday night fatal shooting in custody.
Photo of alleged shooter
Mario Casanova-Lanzo
More on Columbia shooting
Columbia police said they are looking for a suspect who may have been involved in a deadly shooting Wednesday night.
Police said they consider Mario Casanova-Lanzo, 36, armed and dangerous. Police are warning the public to be cautious if they see him.
Investigators said one man was found shot to death in a home along the 200 block of North Third Street Wednesday night at 10:16. They said other people were inside of the home at the time of the shooting and identified Casanova-Lanzo. Police would not release any details on what sparked the shooting.
If you have any information that could help police with this investigation, you're asked to give them a call.
Man shot in Columbia – News – LancasterOnline.com
A man was shot in the head in Columbia late Wednesday night.
Medical personnel, along with police from multiple jurisdictions, responded to the area of 224 N. Third St. just before 10:20 p.m.
A suspect fled on foot.
Police were looking for a dark-skinned Hispanic man with dreadlocks.
http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/817465_Man-shot-in-Columbia.html
"Red means stop!" Appoint Hellboy as Borough Traffic Control Officer
Wrightsville Man Busted in Underage Sex Sting | WPMT FOX43
Three men were arrested after setting up what they thought were sexual trysts with underage girls. The Office of Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit busted the suspects when they showed up to meet their online chat partners for sex. Only, instead of the 13- and 14-year-old girls they thought they were meeting, they came face-to-face with the law.
http://fox43.com/2013/02/20/wrightsville-man-busted-in-underage-sex-sting/
What I Saw – 2/19/13
At the end of an overcast and rainy day, the sun finally tried to break through the clouds, as seen here reflected in the asphalt.
And this is what the inside of an empty Turkey Hill Minit Market looks like.
(On Route 462, across from 9th Street)
Prestige of new medal for drone pilots rankles some, including PA Senator
Count US Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa) among those taking umbrage with the status of a new medal created by the Pentagon for drone operators. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded to pilots of unmanned aircraft, cyber war experts or others who are directly involved in combat operations but who are not physically present in the combat zone and facing the same physical risks of warfare. The Pentagon is adding prestige to the medal by placing it above some traditional combat valor medals in the military’s “order of precedence.”
Missing Elizabethtown Girl, Daysha Conner | WPMT FOX43
Tell police if you have seen this 15-year-old girl, Daysha Conner. She has dark brown hair with blue and purple coloring underneath, and blue eyes. She is 136 lbs, 5’2″, and has a mole on her right cheek. She also has a small mole by her nose on the left side of her face. She goes to Elizabethtown High School, Pennsylvania. Her birthday is today, February 19, 2013. She went missing on February 11, 2013.
Contact your local police department if you have seen her.
http://fox43.com/2013/02/18/missing-elizabethtown-girl-daysha-conner/#axzz2LHHx8b66
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