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03-18-2005, 08:14 PM
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High-speed Chase and Shooting in Snyder County
A man is in serious condition after being shot by state troopers early Friday morning. The shooting happened after he led officers on a high-speed chase in Snyder County.
Investigators say they were called several times to an apartment in the village of Salem in Penn Township, near Selinsgrove. Women there claimed they were being stalked and harassed by George Foust, 30.
The women live on the third floor of an apartment building on Salem Street. Neighbor Gary Newcomer lives in the same building and heard everything very early Friday morning.
"He just said 'I can't live without you'. He goes, 'I'm going to kill myself'," Newcomer said. He never saw the man before but after hearing the shouts, Newcomer didn't want him hanging around.
"I told him, 'I think you ought to leave. You're disturbing the people in the building complex here'," Newcomer recounted.
One of the women said her roommate dated Foust for about three months although they had known each other for years. She said Foust did leave when Newcomer asked, but came back at least six times. He even threatened the women.
"I was worried for them because the threats he was causing, like terrorist threats, 'I'm going to kill you' and other words I'm not going to say," Newcomer added.
The third time officers showed up, they spotted Foust. He took off, leading them on a chase that ended 20 miles away along Route 235 in Beaver Springs.
State police say troopers used a cruiser to push Foust's car off the road. Once it was stopped, Foust tried to get away by ramming a trooper's car.
"The car backed up and rammed the state police vehicle as the driver, the trooper tried to exit the vehicle so he had to quickly jump back into the vehicle to avoid being struck," said Trooper Matthew Burrow.
Foust then rammed a Selinsgrove police car. That's when two state troopers opened fire on Foust, hitting him an unknown number of times. He still resisted arrest and had to be pulled out of the car.
People who live nearby saw the last few seconds of the violence. "Basically they took the person out of the vehicle and put him in an ambulance and life-flighted him," said neighbor Dale Pyle. There is no word on Foust's condition.
Route 235 in Beaver Springs was closed all morning. The stretch of road where the shooting happened opened just before noon.
The Snyder County district attorney says he believes the shooting was justified because the officers lives were in danger when Foust rammed their cars.
Foust has not yet been arrested for anything that happened early Friday. He is under police watch at the hospital so the Snyder County district attorney said there is no hurry to file charges.
This is not Foust's first run in with the law in Snyder County. He has faced charges from drug possession to terroristic threats. A protection from abuse order was issued against Foust to keep him away from a woman in 1998.
article (http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=3094877)
High-speed Chase and Shooting in Snyder County
A man is in serious condition after being shot by state troopers early Friday morning. The shooting happened after he led officers on a high-speed chase in Snyder County.
Investigators say they were called several times to an apartment in the village of Salem in Penn Township, near Selinsgrove. Women there claimed they were being stalked and harassed by George Foust, 30.
The women live on the third floor of an apartment building on Salem Street. Neighbor Gary Newcomer lives in the same building and heard everything very early Friday morning.
"He just said 'I can't live without you'. He goes, 'I'm going to kill myself'," Newcomer said. He never saw the man before but after hearing the shouts, Newcomer didn't want him hanging around.
"I told him, 'I think you ought to leave. You're disturbing the people in the building complex here'," Newcomer recounted.
One of the women said her roommate dated Foust for about three months although they had known each other for years. She said Foust did leave when Newcomer asked, but came back at least six times. He even threatened the women.
"I was worried for them because the threats he was causing, like terrorist threats, 'I'm going to kill you' and other words I'm not going to say," Newcomer added.
The third time officers showed up, they spotted Foust. He took off, leading them on a chase that ended 20 miles away along Route 235 in Beaver Springs.
State police say troopers used a cruiser to push Foust's car off the road. Once it was stopped, Foust tried to get away by ramming a trooper's car.
"The car backed up and rammed the state police vehicle as the driver, the trooper tried to exit the vehicle so he had to quickly jump back into the vehicle to avoid being struck," said Trooper Matthew Burrow.
Foust then rammed a Selinsgrove police car. That's when two state troopers opened fire on Foust, hitting him an unknown number of times. He still resisted arrest and had to be pulled out of the car.
People who live nearby saw the last few seconds of the violence. "Basically they took the person out of the vehicle and put him in an ambulance and life-flighted him," said neighbor Dale Pyle. There is no word on Foust's condition.
Route 235 in Beaver Springs was closed all morning. The stretch of road where the shooting happened opened just before noon.
The Snyder County district attorney says he believes the shooting was justified because the officers lives were in danger when Foust rammed their cars.
Foust has not yet been arrested for anything that happened early Friday. He is under police watch at the hospital so the Snyder County district attorney said there is no hurry to file charges.
This is not Foust's first run in with the law in Snyder County. He has faced charges from drug possession to terroristic threats. A protection from abuse order was issued against Foust to keep him away from a woman in 1998.
article (http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=3094877)