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Police investigate fatal shooting on city’s Grant Street | News, Sports, Jobs

Williamsport police and the Lycoming County Coroner’s Office are trying to determine whether a man found shot to death in a Grant Street apartment Saturday afternoon was an act of suicide or homicide.

“Investigators are still trying to determine what really happened in the apartment,” County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said Monday afternoon, shortly after the victim’s autopsy at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown.

Kiessling identified the victim as Reagan Pyle, 39, of Williamsport, who died in a second-floor apartment at 449 Grant St., where, according to a police news release, officers and paramedics were dispatched around 2 p.m. 10 a.m. to investigate a report. of “a shot fired with a deceased person in the residence.”

Pyle lived on nearby Washington Boulevard, Kiessling said.

“Officers arrived at Grant Street and found an adult male with an apparent fatal gunshot wound. Officers also observed a firearm and other evidence at the scene. » said the press release. Interviews were conducted with tenants of the building, police said. The coroner’s office was alerted of the death several hours after the shooting. Kiessling officially pronounced Pyle dead at the scene at 9:36 p.m.

Pyle died from a single gunshot wound to the torso, Kiessling said. “The circumstances of the death are pending the results of the investigation. It will be listed as a suicide, homicide or undetermined,” he said.

District Attorney Thomas Marino said Monday that his office is helping city police “gather evidence” but he had no additional information to disclose.

“An investigation into the circumstances of this incident is currently underway. If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact Agt. Aaron Levan at [email protected] or by clicking on the “Submit a Tip” link button on the Police Department webpage,” the press release states.