Killer’s girlfriend charged with conspiracy in troopers’ shooting

TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) — A New Jersey woman is accused of providing the gun used to kill one Pennsylvania state trooper and wound another.

Police say 24-year-old Emily Joy Gross of Westfield, N.J., was the girlfriend of 31-year-old Daniel Autenrieth, who also died in the June 7 gunfight in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County.

Autenrieth fatally shot 34-year-old Trooper Joshua Miller after police stopped his car after a 40-mile, high-speed chase from Nazareth, where Autenrieth had kidnapped his 9-year-old son.

He also wounded 35-year-old Trooper Robert Lombardo.

Police say Autenrieth was prohibited from having a weapon under a protection-from-abuse order obtained by his estranged wife.

Gross posted $50,000 bail Thursday after she was charged with several counts of criminal conspiracy.

Gross doesn’t have a listed phone number; it was not immediately clear if she had a lawyer.