Police: Constable serving eviction order kills 12-year-old

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Man Is Charged in Death of His Daughter After Eviction Confrontation


A Pennsylvania man who the authorities say pointed a rifle at a state constable serving him eviction papers has been charged in the death of his 12-year-old daughter, who was accidentally shot when the officer fired his weapon in response.

According to a police account provided in an affidavit, the constable, Clark Steele, arrived at the apartment in Duncannon, a small borough outside Harrisburg, at 10 a.m. on Jan. 11 to enforce an order for Donald Meyer Jr., 57, and his family to leave. The police said Mr. Meyer opened and closed the door several times, insisting that they could stay until midnight. Constable Steele told him that was untrue.

Mr. Meyer then appeared in the doorway and raised a semiautomatic rifle, aiming it at Constable Steele’s chest, according to the affidavit. “In fear for his life,” the officer took his service weapon out of its holster and fired one round into Mr. Meyer’s left arm, it said.

The bullet traveled through Mr. Meyer’s arm and struck his daughter, Ciara Meyer, who had been standing behind her father during the exchange.

An ambulance was called, and emergency workers found the girl dead in the kitchen. The coroner said the bullet had penetrated her heart and a lung.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/us/man-is-charged-in-death-of-his-daughter-after-eviction-confrontation.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur