Coatesville police investigate shooting
COATESVILLE — City police are seeking information about a shooting Monday that left one man in intensive care at a local hospital.
According to police, they were called to the 600 block of Victory Drive, the Regency Park Apartments, with a report of a shooting. There they found a 25 year old man, Jamil Battle, who was shot once in the lower back, Battle was transported to Paoli Hospital, where...
Update: Fifth slaying suspect turns himself in
Tyler Adams
COATESVILLE — City Police said Tuesday afternoon that Tyler Adams turned himself into city police this afternoon.
Adams, 16, had been wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Juan Antonio Jiminez on Oct. 4. Four others charged in the slaying have been taken into custody: Dajon Rowe, 17, Steven Adams, 17 (Tyler Adams’ brother); Demetrius Joseph, 21 and Chris Mansfield,...
Still no answers as to motive for courthouse knife attack
Coatesville man, shot and killed by deputies, had troubled past
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
The folding knife authorities say Curtis Smith used in an attack on Sheriff’s Deputies at the Chester County Courthouse Tuesday, which resulted in Smith’s death.
WEST CHESTER — While the “what” of Tuesday’s knife-attack, fatal shooting at the county courthouse is much clearer following...
More questions than answers in courthouse shooting
WEST CHESTER — There are more questions than answers Wednesday as to why a Coatesville man allegedly attacked a Chester County Sheriff’s Deputy with a knife at the county Justice Center Tuesday just before midday — and was shot and killed by another deputy.
Curtis Smith, 34, entered the building a bit before noon Tuesday and allegedly attacked an unidentified deputy with a knife. The...
Coatesville man shot, killed after allegedly slashing deputy
WEST CHESTER — A Coatesville man was shot and killed Tuesday after apparently attacking and stabbing a Sheriff’s deputy at the Chester County Justice Center, according to District Attorney Tom Hogan.
Although details remain a bit unclear, the dead man was identified as Curtis Smith. Just after 11 a.m. Smith reportedly entered the courthouse and slashed a deputy with a knife. He was then...
Update: Coatesville police nab ‘extremely dangerous’ gunman
Jamil Battle
Updated 4:10 p.m. with Battle’s arrest
COATESVILLE — A manhunt for an individual they describe as “armed and extremely dangerous” ended Tuesday afternoon after city police said they apprehended a man wanted following a shooting, Jan. 30 at North 8th Avenue and East Diamond Streets.
Police police said they took Jamil Battle into custody Tuesday afternoon in connection...
Two arrested in Downingtown shooting
Allegedly fled to New Mexico before being apprehended
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Tyler Peters
Two men are facing charges with the shooting of a Downingtown man on Nov. 17, after they were taken into custody last week in New Mexico.
Authorities announced the arrest and pending charges against the two, Tuesday.
Darrance Peters, 23, of Coatesville, and Tyler Peters, 23, of Harrisburg were arrested...
Downingtown man critical after shooting
DOWNINGTOWN — Police are investigating a shooting Monday night that left a borough man in critical condition.
According to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office, a 21-year-old man, who was not identified, was shot twice in the abdomen in what was described as a “drug-related” shooting, although authorities offered few other details, of the incident which took place on Farmhouse...
Man kills woman, self at Brandywine YMCA
Jacinda Miller, the victim of Monday evening’s shooting at the Brandywine YMCA, as pictured on her Facebook page.
WEST BRANDYWINE — Authorities are trying to determine why a man gunned down his estranged girl friend and then shot himself to death Monday night at the Brandywine YMCA.
Jacinda Miller, authorities, a fitness instructor at the YMCA, was shot by Dennis Cassel as she arrived at...
