The year 2020 ended in the Poconos with a teenager shot and killed by Pennsylvania State Police on an Interstate 80 overpass. Numerous protests, press conferences and discussions have since taken place.
Here s what reporters at the Pocono Record know so far about the death of Christian Hall. As we learn more, we ll continue to update this page.
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020
After about an hour and a half of negotiation, 19-year-old Christian Hall was shot by the Pennsylvania State Police on a highway overpass near the Giant where he worked.
It would later emerge that Hall was having a mental health crisis. He had recently gone through a breakup, and he missed people he couldn’t see due to the pandemic, his family and lawyers have said. He had called 911 anonymously to report a possibly suicidal person.
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This initiative allows those seeking addiction treatment to use police as a resource for help without the threat of arrest. (Shutterstock)
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA Delaware County is joining Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro in launching a new initiative that supports those seeking addiction treatment without the threat of arrest.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Shapiro Tuesday announced the kick-off of the Attorney General s Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) in Delaware County.
LETI is a program that allows individuals seeking treatment for addiction to use local law enforcement as a resource to contact participating treatment partners without the threat of arrest.
From left, are Reading Police Chief Richard Tornielli and Pennsylvania District Attorney Josh Shapiro at the Council on Chemical Abuse (COCA) RISE Center in Reading, PA Tuesday morning April 13, 2021, where Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro visited to announce the expansion of the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) in Berks County. The LETI program is a collaborative law enforcement program that allows Pennsylvanians seeking treatment for addiction to use their local law enforcement, including sheriffs, probation officers, and parole officers as a resource to contact participating treatment partners without the threat of arrest.
BEN HASTY â READING EAGLE
Delaware County is the 8th in the state to join a program launched in Western Pa. by AG Shapiro in 2018. It’s the first county to do so in the Philly suburbs.
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