State police fatally shoot man to end standoff

COUDERSPORT, Pa. (AP) — State police say they’re still investigating an armed standoff in which a trooper fatally shot the suspect in north-central Pennsylvania.

State police in Coudersport say a trooper they are not identifying shot 30-year-old Joshua Wheeler, at his home in Harrison Valley Sunday afternoon. The incident is a few miles south of the New York border, about 140 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

Police say they went to Wheeler’s residence after reports of an armed man about 9:45 a.m. Sunday.

Police say Wheeler threatened the troopers and fired at least six shots at troopers from inside the house during the nearly six-hour standoff.

A trooper fatally shot Wheeler about 3:30 p.m.