An argument about finances escalated to a woman fatally shooting a man Friday night in Mountville, according to court documents.
Cherrelle Byrd, 34, of the 400 block of Hillside Drive, is in Lancaster County Prison after police say she shot and killed Richard Williams following the argument.
Byrd married Williams in July 2012, according to Lancaster County marriage records. Divorce records indicate Byrd and Williams divorced in 2017.
Williams was pronounced dead at Lancaster General Hospital less than three hours after police arrived at the Hillside Drive residence, where they found Byrd visibly upset and crying, repeating, I shot him, according to the affidavit of probable cause.Â
A police officer was justified in using deadly force last year when he shot at a man during a standoff in Manheim Township that ended when the man killed himself,
A police officer was justified in using deadly force last year when he shot at a man during a standoff in Manheim Township that ended when the man killed himself, according to the Lancaster County District Attorneyâs Office.
The officer shot at Craig Kevin Bush â resulting in a superficial wound â when Bush held up a semiautomatic pistol, according to the district attorneyâs office. Bush then fatally shot himself, the office said.
Manheim Township police were dispatched to a residence on Knollwood Drive at 8:08 p.m. Dec. 8, 2020, after a man called 911 in behalf of his sister, who told him her boyfriend was âgoing crazy,â the district attorneyâs office said in a press release.
Fatal overdoses in Lancaster County soared to 146 in 2020, a 40% increase from the previous year that officials are attributing to COVID-19.
Lancaster Joining Forces, which was formed in 2017 with the mission to reduce deaths from opioids and heroin, said the pandemic has ushered in many of the triggers for addiction and relapse including mental health distress, social isolation, changes in daily routines and access to treatment and support services.
âWe had been tracking the numbers all along and sensed that they were going to be higher than in the recent past,â said Alice Yoder, executive director for community health at Lancaster General Health and co-chair of Joining Forces. âYet seeing the final numbers is heartbreaking because these are people behind these numbers.â
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