PA: 72-Year-Old Homeowner Shoots, Kills 22-Year-Old Intruder

 

On December 10, 2022, at about 3 a.m., the Bedford 911 service received and urgent call.

According to the Pennsylvania State Police at the Bedford station, the Bedford 911 received a call reporting a home invasion and an assault in progress. The call was disconnected. After the call was re-connected, there was a report of shots fired. When the State Police arrived, they determined one shot had been fired, and the intruder, Dakota Lance Hall a white male, was struck and had died at the scene. WTAJ reported this. From wtaj.com:

State Police out of Bedford said they received a call of a home invasion and assault along Shoups Branch Road in Liberty Township shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday. While on the phone with the 72-year-old male homeowner, they said the 911 call disconnected. When the call reconnected, there were reports of shots fired.

When police arrived, they found the alleged intruder, Dakota Hall, 22, of Huntingdon, with a gunshot wound. Police said Hall died of his injuries at the scene.

The 72-year-old was taken to UPMC Bedford for injuries suffered in the assault.

Bedford is a rural community in Pennsylvania.  The population of Liberty Township  is modest at 1,382 as of the 2020 census.  Shoup's Branch Road is a short street in a development of what appear to be about 15 mobile homes in the satellite image. An athletic field is across the street.  On the other side of the athletic fields for baseball and football is a middle school and a high school.

The identity of the 72-year-old white male is unknown. Dakota Hall's address is reported as in Huntingdon, PA. The homeowner is reported as being from  Saxon, PA, which is in Liberty Township. Huntingdon is about a half hour drive, northeast from Liberty Township.  In Hall's obituary, he is listed as 26 years old. His parents were stated as being from Saxton, in Liberty Township. Hall is reported to have been booked on a charge of domestic assault on March 16, 2020.

The police have not reported if Hall was related to the 72-Year-old male who shot him, or if there were any connection at all.

 

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