Coroner Rules Shooting Death By State Trooper As Homicide

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GIRARD, Pa. (AP) – The shooting death of an Ohio man following what state police are calling a “brief encounter” with troopers in northwestern Pennsylvania has been ruled a homicide.
State police in Erie County say troopers responded to a report of a suspicious person in Girard Township just after 5 p.m. Thursday and encountered 36-year-old Matthew Orrenmaa of Conneaut, Ohio.
Police say one of the troopers fired, hitting Orrenmaa in the trunk