Police release new images of what York County homicide victim John Doe might have looked like
Updated 9:08 PM;
New DNA technology has revealed that an unidentified homicide victim whose skeletal remains were found in West Manchester Township in 2013 is primarily Black and could have relatives in North Carolina, according to police.
Investigators previously thought John Doe was white, perhaps Hispanic, but the DNA Doe Project determined he is of 75% sub-Saharan African descent, West Manchester Township Police announced Wednesday.
“This means our victim was black and may have had a Caucasian great-grandparent or great-great-grandparent in the family line,” a police news release states. “Results based on this new information are showing in the genealogy websites of distant family in the North Carolina area and surrounding states.”
West Manchester Twp. police release new images of what homicide victim John Doe might have looked like
York Dispatch
Anyone with information about the man s identity is asked to call West Manchester Township Police at 717-792-9514 and ask for Sgt. Krout.
New DNA technology has revealed that an unidentified homicide victim whose skeletal remains were found in West Manchester Township in 2013 is primarily Black and could have relatives in North Carolina, according to police.
Investigators previously thought John Doe was white, perhaps Hispanic, but the DNA Doe Project determined he is of 75% sub-Saharan African descent, West Manchester Township Police announced Wednesday.
Police: West York HS student made online school threats as joke
York Dispatch
A 17-year-old West York Area High School student is being charged with making terroristic threats for posting threats online about the high school as well as West York Area Middle School, police said.
At about 10:15 a.m. April 1, the West Manchester Township Police s school resource officer assigned the two schools learned of a social-media post threatening an act of violence, according to township police.
The threat did not specify which school-district building was the target of the threat, police said.
Students at both the high school and middle school were released for the day shortly after the threatening post was reported, according to police.
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