A six-year-old boy was killed Monday night as a result of a stabbing at a residence at 1550 Pennsylvania Avenue in Tyrone.
\nThe Tyrone Borough Police released a statement this morning to The Daily Herald that said they responded to a weapons call shortly before 10 p.m. Police found a homicide scene when they arrived.
\nChief Joseph Beachem confirmed the child was stabbed to death. He said the child was the only murder victim but others were assaulted at the same address. He offered no details about how many people had been assaulted or their conditions.
\nBeachem said his department has developed \u201ca person of interest\u201d in the case. Authorities are looking for 25-year-old Nathan T. Shaw. The press release described Shaw as a white male, five feet, 10 inches with blue eyes. Shaw may be driving a red 1993 Nissan Sentra.
\nBeachem said Shaw should not be approached.
\nBeachem said they are not ready to release the name of the child. He also did not identify any of the other victims. Beachem said the reason behind the stabbing and assaults has not been determined yet. He also said police do have a witness in the case.
\nBeachem said the Pennsylvania State Police, the Blair County District Attorney\u2019s office and the Coroner\u2019s office assisted his department. Attempts were made to reach the DA\u2019s office and the coroner, but they did not return phone calls by press time.
\nBeachem asked anyone with information regarding the crime to call Tyrone Police at 684-1364.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A six-year-old boy was killed Monday night as a result of a stabbing at a residence at 1550 Pennsylvania Avenue in Tyrone. The Tyrone Borough Police released a statement this morning to The Daily Herald that said they responded to a weapons call shortly before 10 p.m. Police found a homicide scene when they arrived. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}