Constable fatally shoots 12-year-old girl 01:20
Ciara
Meyer stood directly behind her father as he raised a .223-caliber
rifle and pointed it at the chest of a constable who'd come to serve an
eviction notice at their apartment. The constable responded with a single shot.
That bullet went through the arm of 57-year-old Donald Meyer and into his 12-year-old daughter, Ciara, killing her.
Meyer
now faces charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic
threats and recklessly endangering another person, according to a
Pennsylvania State Police report. He was flown to Hershey Medical Center
for treatment after Monday's shooting in Perry County.
The
man who shot him, Constable Clarke Steele, is "heartbroken" over the
incident, his friend and fellow constable Bill Stoeffler told CNN affiliate WPMT-TV.
"He
was put in a position from which he couldn't retreat safely," Stoeffler
said of the shooting, calling it "every constable's worst nightmare."
"He had no other option, really, than what he did."
Culled from CNN
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