Lansdowne Police Officer David Schiazza shakes hands with Lansdowne Police Chief Ken Rutherford as he is released from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Philadelphia. - Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
PHILADELPHIA — After hours of sifting through the charred remains of an East Lansdowne, Pa., home on Thursday, investigators retrieved three sets of human remains and a rifle — the beginnings of their painstaking search for evidence as they worked to piece together what led a resident of the home to shoot two police officers before setting the house ablaze the day before.
It was difficult, “gruesome” work, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer.
