Autopsy set on Pennsylvania girl, 12, shot during eviction

The girl, identified by relatives as Ciara Meyer, was standing behind her father in the doorway of their home Monday morning in Penn Township when a uniformed state police constable showed up to serve an eviction notice, state police said Tuesday. An autopsy is scheduled Wednesday. “Her family and friends will miss her”.

“The father put the constable in a situation where he had to make a decision to use deadly force”, the trooper said.

Ciera Meyer wasn’t at school that day because she was sick.

According to the Associated Press, the constable fired at an armed tenant, but the bullet passed through the man’s arm and fatally struck his daughter.

The death has been ruled a homicide but Constable Street has not been charged with any offence.

Her father, Daniel Meyer, was airlifted to a hospital for treatment.

Rhode, who said he was speaking on behalf of the whole family, said: ‘None of us in our family have any hard feelings toward him. 223 caliber rifle, which had been slung and concealed along his body. Rohde is related to the girl through his wife’s family.

This wasn’t the first time that Steele made a visit to the Meyer’s apartment.

PennLive.com reports that constables are elected at the municipal level to serve six-year terms. That’s when Steele unholstered his.

Bill Stoeffler, spokesman for the constables’ association, said. They perform certain types of duties which include issuing warrants and transporting prisoners to jail.

The 12-year-old’s death is among at least 22 police shootings that have resulted in fatalities so far this year, according to a Washington Post database. “It’s terrible, absolutely heartbreaking”, a neighbor of the Meyers said to WHTM-TV of the girl. “He had no other option really than to do what he did and respond as he did”. The last constable election in Pennsylvania was in 2015.

Meyer allegedlu had a rifle in his hand, and pointed it at the officer’s chest – the officer instinctively drew his own weapon and fired. He said that constables have sufficient training to fulfill their current work for the state’s district courts. Citing state Supreme Court records and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the article says constables can but art not required to carry firearms. Even so, he says the Order does support legislation to increase the training hours for constables.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help cover Ciara’s funeral costs.

CIARA Meyer died when she fell in the doorway of her family’s home.