Custody Battle Turns Deadly

According to both the Express-Times (read it here) and the Morning Call (read it here), a custody battle and violation of a Protection From Abuse led a man to abduct his 9 year old child from the 400 block of Union Street (south-east part of town between Franklin and South New Streets) in Nazareth at 7:45 p.m. on Sunday. The man was chased over 40 miles to Monroe County where he had a shoot-out with police leaving him and one state trooper dead. The child was apparently unharmed.

The name of the man was not released, the trooper he killed was Joshua Miller, age 34.