A 27-year-old Saugerties man was shot dead by Pennsylvania state police on Saturday morning after he allegedly attempted to break into a house.
According to several news reports, Adam L. Schillinger was shot and killed at approximately 8 a.m. on Saturday, outside of a house in St. Thomas Township, which is near the Maryland border of Pennsylvania.
The Daily Freeman reported on Tuesday that Pennsylvania state police were notified of a suspicious person outside of a house, and were later notified by a second caller that Schillinger had tried to force his way into the house with a handgun as police were en route.
The Greencastle, PA Echo-Pilot has an account of what happened next:
According to the public information release report, troopers encountered the suspect who had been earlier described by the caller as a while male, about 6-1 and in his mid 20s, inside a pickup truck parked at a nearby residents. Police reported the suspect pointed a gun at the troopers and they fired.
Just two days after Schillinger was killed, in an unrelated incident that also made headlines around the region, his fiancee, Kim Dougherty, was badly injured in a Kingston motorcycle accident that left one man dead and another wounded.
Several commenters on the Daily Freeman wrote on the paper's first story about Schillinger's death that the two were engaged to be married. A comment left by Freeman reader Catherine Vey-Craig:
Actually they were engaged to be married in a month. She was out with friends who were trying to console her [on Monday].
In an effort to confirm the comments, the Freeman spoke with state police in Pennsylvania today, who told the paper that the two "had a relationship."
