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Harrisburg’s first homicide of the year will result in no charges, district attorney says
The shooting death of 64-year-old Franklin Lee on Jan. 10 was justified because the shooter was acting in self-defense, DA Fran Chardo said Friday.
Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43)
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The first homicide of 2025 in Harrisburg will not result in charges after a review of the case determined the shooter was acting in self-defense, Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said Friday.Franklin Lee, 64, was shot and killed during an altercation in a home on the 1200 block of Walnut Street on Jan. 10.
Chardo said Lee was attacking another man when a handgun he was carrying discharged, striking the other man.
The wounded man then returned fire with another handgun, causing Lee’s death, Chardo said.
The individual who shot Lee gave a complete statement to the Harrisburg Bureau of Police outlining what occurred, according to Chardo.
Because of prior convictions for third-degree murder and rape, Lee was not lawfully allowed to possess a firearm. Lee was released on parole in 2019 after serving just over 35 years in prison, Chardo said.
The Dauphin County Coroner’s Office ruled Lee’s death a homicide, which legally means the coroner determined the death was caused by another person and does not connotate any criminal intent, according to Chardo.
The district attorney’s review of the case determined the man who shot Lee was justified in doing so under Chapter 5 of the Crimes Code, which states that “use of force upon or toward another person is justifiable when the actor believes that such force is immediately necessary for the purpose of protecting himself against the use of unlawful force by such other person on the present occasion.”
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Fox 43
Mr. Lee won’t be a recidivist, so there’s that.
Suspect stabbed, hospitalized after unprovoked attack on electrician in Eagle Point
By JAMES SLOAN Rogue Valley Times
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies are investigating an assault that led to a stabbing in self defense around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning in Eagle Point.The victim, an electrician with Medford company Precision Electric, allegedly acted in self defense after the suspect assaulted them, according to detectives’ preliminary investigation.
Dispatch received a call at 8:31 a.m. Friday for a stabbing in the 2100 block of Rogue River Drive in Eagle Point, and Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies, Jackson County Fire District 3 and Mercy Flights arrived on scene.
After deputies secured the scene, a Mercy Flights ambulance transported the wounded suspect to a nearby hospital.
Detectives learned that the electrician was in the area working when a man approached and assaulted him unprovoked, causing the electrician to act in self defense and use his pocket knife to stop the attack, wounding the suspect in the process.
Nobody else was involved in the altercation.
The suspect underwent surgery for the wounds at the hospital and is in stable condition.
The suspect’s name hasn’t been released and charges are pending review by the Jackson County District Attorney’s office.
Travis Snyder, managing partner of Precision Electric and employer of the electrician who was assaulted, backed his employee for acting in self defense.
“We stand behind our employee 100% and we support his actions he had to take to defend himself,” Snyder said. “He was the victim in this situation and we’re just glad he’s OK.”
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RV Times
Great to see the employer backing the worker, and perhaps Reporter James Sloan will stop using plurals when a single person is the article’s subject.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C. S. LEWIS
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What would we ever do without the ‘news’?
Jus to confirm I know what the word means, I has statement of fact:
Derek Chauvin couldn’t have murdered anyone because there was no homicide outside of the Cup Foods that day.
Have yourselves a fine-as-can-be Monday.
“What would we ever do without the ‘news’?” We’d be better off. We do get some good examples of the FA & FO Theory so there is that. If Mr. Lee would’ve had the appropriate punishment for his rape and murder back yonder we wouldn’t be reading about him today.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you SHOCKED that an electrician would carry a knife on the job site. The perp came up short when he ran into some resistance.
Tyranny is just another word for nothing left to lose.
“Is that a mouse in your pocket or are you glad to see me?”
Ya mean like this?
https://www.wbparts.com/rfq/5110-00-240-5943.html
The plurals for an I dividual is part of the current APA format of writing, so as not to offend the mentally ill. It’s stupid as shit, but the reporter, in this case, was following the guidelines..
Harrisburg has experienced a significant drop in population over the past 50 years. When I was there, in 1970, 46,761 white folks. As of 2020 there are only 11,405.
Clearly, the reduction in crime is related to the relocation of violent criminals to “another area” across the river.