Pennsylvania State Police say one man is dead after police in West Manheim Township, York County served a warrant and had shots fired at them.
FOX43 is told that officers surrounded a home in the 2600 block of Baltimore Pike shortly after noon on Monday.
It was a very scary afternoon for 17-year-old Brandan Mitten.
He tells FOX43 that he woke up around 12:30 to police surrounding his neighbor’s white brick home.
He was told to stay inside and not to leave his living room, which was where he watched the entire scene unfold.
A picture of police taking cover behind a squad car with their weapons aimed at a house is a snapshot of what Brandan Mitten experienced today.
“A lot of cops, sheriffs the whole nine yards they had flood lights, megaphones, everything. (And you were watching it from your window?) Yeah I watched the entire time,” says Brandan Mitten.
Mitten says he then heard a gunshot.
“He shot at the police officer and missed and then the police officer shot,” says Mitten.
And while all this was happening, Mitten’s mother was unable to get to her son because police closed off the area.
“I was crying I wasn’t as calm as I am now because I’m looking at him and seeing that he’s okay but in a situation like this any parent that can’t get to their child, it’s really hard,” says Mitten’s mother, Carrieann Galbreath.
Mitten says what he witnessed has hit him hard and this experienced will stay with him forever.
“I talked to the guy a few times and he never really seemed like a bad guy,” says Mitten
“I talked to the guy a few times and he never really seemed like a bad guy,” says Mitten
Pennsylvania State Police are not releasing the manner in which the man died.
A press release states that the man opened fire on officers while they were trying to serve an arrest warrant, the officers fired back, and after that the man barricaded himself inside of the residence.
The incident is still being investigated, but no law enforcement members were injured during the incident.