Constable accidentally kills 12-year-old girl during eviction

PENN TOWNSHIP , Pa., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A law enforcement officer fatally shot a 12-year-old girl as he served an eviction order in Penn Township, Pa., authorities said.

Police said the girl, identified by relatives as Ciara Meyer, was standing behind her father, Donald Meyer, 57, as Constable Clarke Steele arrived Monday morning in their apartment to evict them. Meyer allegedly pointed a rifle at Steele's chest and Steele responded by shooting Meyer with his handgun.

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The .40-caliber bullet traveled through Meyer's arm and struck his daughter, killing her. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Meyer was hospitalized and charged with aggravated and simple assault, terroristic threats and reckless endangerment. Police later said his rifle had one round in its chamber and carried a magazine of 30 rounds.

Relatives of the Meyer family said the girl has home from school Monday because of illness. Court documents indicated the eviction notice said the Meyers owed $1,780 in back rent and other costs.

A 12-year-old girl was shot and killed by a central Pennsylvania constable who was serving an eviction notice Monday in Duncannon.

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.

State police say the man first pointed a loaded, .223-caliber rifle at Clarke Steele, a uniformed constable, Monday at the Pfautz Apartments in Penn Township, Perry County, about 10 miles northwest of Harrisburg, the York Daily Record reported.

Police said the constable, who was enforcing a district judge's eviction order, then drew his .40-caliber weapon and fired once. The bullet went through the suspect's arm and killed the girl, who was standing behind her father.

The girl was pronounced dead at the scene, AP reported.

State police told the Associated Press the suspect's rifle was found "with a loaded chamber and a magazine containing 30 rounds."

The man being evicted, Donald Meyer, 57, was flown to Hershey Medical Center for treatment, AP reported. He has been charged with aggravated and simple assault, terroristic threats, and recklessly endangering another person. 

A phone listed in his name wasn't working Tuesday and court documents don't list an attorney who could respond to the accusations, AP said.

In Pennsylvania, constables are elected officials with limited law enforcement powers. They serve warrants, transport prisoners and perform other duties for Pennsylvania's district courts, the lowest level of the judiciary.

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The birth father of a girl of Cherokee heritage challenges adoption of Native American daughter.

Father challenges adoption of Native American daughter

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - The birth father of a girl of Cherokee heritage whose adoption has been finalized by South Carolina courts asked the adoptive parents to reconsider taking the child on Thursday, citing her emotional well-being.

"Please, for Veronica's sake, just stop. Stop, and ask yourself if you really believe this is best for her," Dusten Brown said in a statement.
A family court in Charleston, in a closed hearing on Wednesday, ordered the prompt return of Veronica from Brown to adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco, who raised her for about two years, said James Fletcher Thompson, the couple's lawyer.
Veronica, 3, has lived with Brown in Oklahoma for more than a year since the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered the couple to turn her over to the biological father because he was an American Indian.

The U.S. high court threw that decision out in June ruling that Brown, who was not married to the birth mother and had provided no support, had no parental claim under the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The South Carolina high court earlier this month awarded custody to the Capobiancos and ordered the adoption to be finalized immediately.
In his statement issued by Cherokee Nation, Brown said a court-approved plan to transfer Veronica out of his custody could leave her feeling "fearful, scared, anxious and confused."
The child "may cry herself to sleep," Brown added.

"I will not voluntarily let my child go through that, no parent would," he said.

Brown and Cherokee Nation asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to consider halting Veronica's adoption and "competing petitions for adoption" that Brown's family members have filed in Oklahoma.
The adoptive parents, who live in Charleston, accused Brown of obstructing South Carolina's high court order.
In court documents, they said that Brown has filed "a series of frivolous and vexatious motions in the Charleston family court. Worse still, (his) attorneys have publicly called upon Oklahoma courts to defy the orders of the South Carolina Supreme Court."
The Capobiancos also said that South Carolina has jurisdiction over the adoption that they sought since Veronica's birth and that Veronica's birth mother would not consent to adoption by anyone other than them.

Reuters: (Reporting by Harriet McLeod; Editing by Bernard Orr)