NEW FLORENCE, Pa. (AP) – A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer who responded to a domestic dispute was charged with homicide Sunday.
Online court records show Ray Shetler Jr. was charged with one count of criminal homicide and was awaiting arraignment Sunday afternoon.
Police believe Shetler, 31, shot St. Clair Township Officer Lloyd Reed on Saturday night after officers were called to the domestic situation in New Florence. Reed, who had been an officer for more than 20 years, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Shetler was captured around 3:15 a.m. after a six-hour manhunt while walking near a power plant outside New Florence, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.
A woman involved in the domestic dispute suffered minor injuries, police said.