At approximately 5:41 p.m., officers responded to the 2400 block of Frederick Avenue for a report of a shooting. They found a 20-year-old male with multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds, who was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Two additional shooting victims, a 23-year-old male and an 18-year-old male, arrived at area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. Preliminary investigation revealed both were shot in the 2400 block of Frederick Avenue.HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christopher Van Johnson, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced on July 17, 2024, to 7 consecutive life sentences for his role in the June 25, 2016 murders of three individuals in Mercersburg, Franklin County, one of whom was cooperating with state and federal drug investigators. The sentence was imposed by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, who also sentenced to concurrent 10, 20, and 30-year terms of imprisonment on companion robbery, firearms, and conspiracy charges.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Johnson’s conviction was the result of a seven-year investigation into three murders that occurred on June 25, 2016, on a property along Welsh Run Road in Mercersburg, Franklin County. When Pennsylvania State Police officers were called to the scene, they found the bodies of Wendy Ann Chaney, 39, Hagerstown, Md, Brandon Cole, 47, Fayetteville, PA, and Phillip Matthew Jackson,
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