Collingdale Officer Accused Of Road Rage Shooting Fired After 4 Days: PA State Police
A newly sworn-in Collingdale Police officer was terminated after just four days on the job following allegations that he pointed a gun and fired at another driver during a 2023 road rage incident, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Friday, Jan. 17.
Kevon Darden, 25, of Ambler, was sworn in on Sunday, Jan. 12 to address staffing shortages in the Collingdale Police Department, borough officials said. By Thursday, Jan. 16, he was terminated after charges including simple assault, harassment, and terroristic threats were filed against him in connection to the April 2023 incident, police said…
IT'S Over: Fugitive Sought For Setting Humc Co-Worker On Fire Found Dead Of Suicide
UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of his own hand in South Jersey, authorities said.
The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said.
HUMC employees w…
Lowey Hosts Gun Violence Roundtable Discussion
U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, in the aftermath of the deadly mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton that left communities devastated, joined Lower Hudson Valley students, survivors, relatives of victims, activists, local law enforcement and medical researchers for a roundtable discussion on gun violence and prevention.
During the event at Greenburgh Public Library on Monday, Aug. 12, Lowey heard directly from participants about the need for commonsense gun safety reform and discussed her efforts to prevent gun violence.
“The mass shootings that we’ve seen in the past few weeks yet agai…
