Multi-vehicle crash with injuries on Beck Mill Road in West Manheim Township (2024)

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY HIGHWAY. WHAT POLICE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO THIS IS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON WGAL NEWS EIGHT AT SIX STARTS NOW. POLICE IN DAUPHIN COUNTY ARE INVESTIGATING A 16 YEAR OLD BOY’S DEATH AFTER THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS HE WAS SUBJECTED TO RACIAL INSENSITIVITY FROM CLASSMATES. GOOD EVENING. I’M JERE GISH AND I’M LORI BURKHOLDER. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. WE ARE HEARING FROM NEIGHBORS OF THAT TEENAGER. BUT LET’S BEGIN WITH WHAT HAPPENED HERE. LET’S GO TO TOM LEHMAN. JOINS US LIVE NOW AT THE LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP POLICE STATION WITH MORE ON THAT TONIGHT. TOM. YEAH. LORI. A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION COMING IN FROM LOWER PAXTON POLICE AND INVESTIGATORS IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO, ALL IN CONNECTION TO THE DEATH OF 16 YEAR-OLD. JUSTIN JOHNSON. HE MOVED HERE FROM JAMAICA TO THE HARRISBURG AREA, AND HE DIED FRIDAY NIGHT. POLICE SAY THAT HE SUFFERED CARDIAC ARREST. AND THEY CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED. POLICE HAVE BEEN LOOKING INTO SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FOOTAGE THAT WAS RECORDED THAT EVENING FROM JOHNSON’S HOME. SOME OF THE CLIPS WERE POSTED ONLINE. INVESTIGATORS INITIALLY NOT HAVING ACCESS TO ALL OF THEM. FROM WHAT THEY SAID, POLICE SAY FOOTAGE THEY’VE BEEN ABLE TO REVIEW SHOWED AN INTERACTION WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER TEENAGER, BUT POLICE ASSERT THAT THEY HAVEN’T SEEN VIDEO SHOWING JOHNSON BEING HARMED AND THAT JOHNSON RE ENTERED HIS HOME SOMETIME BEFORE HIS DEATH AND DID NOT APPEAR TO BE IN DISTRESS. INVESTIGATORS ALSO SAY JOHNSON HAD CALLED HIS DAD AT THE ONSET OF THAT INTERACTION, LETTING HIS FATHER KNOW THAT THAT HE WAS GOING TO PLAY TAG WITH OTHER KIDS. HIS FATHER, ACCORDING TO POLICE, LATER FOUND JOHNSON UNRESPONSIVE ON THE FLOOR SHORTLY BEFORE 10 P.M. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT HERSHEY BEARS MED LATER IN THE EVENING. DAUPHIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRAN CHARDO SAYS LOWER PAXTON POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING, BUT CHARDO ALSO SAID RACIALLY CHARGED LANGUAGE HEARD IN ONE OF THESE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO CLIPS BEFORE JOHNSON’S DEATH WAS CONCERNING. IT’S DEEPLY, DEEPLY CONCERNED, BUT WE HAVE TO, UH, FIRST FIGURE OUT WHETHER OR NOT THE THE DEATH, UH, IS CONNECTED TO THOSE AND WHETHER OR NOT WE’RE LOOKING AT, UH, UH, INVESTIGATING THIS AS A CRIMINAL HOMICIDE OR WHETHER OR NOT IT’S JUST A TRAGIC DEATH. AND IF RESPECTIVE OF THAT, WE CAN INVESTIGATE WHETHER OR NOT THERE’S CRIMINAL CONDUCT BEYOND THE DEATH. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TODAY HERE IN CENTRAL DAUPHIN ACKNOWLEDGING SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTS THAT JOHNSON WAS SUBJECTED TO RACIAL COMMENTS BY CLASSMATES, THE DISTRICT EMPHASIZED THAT HATE SPEECH IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND THAT IT WAS COOPERATING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. AN AUTOPSY THAT COULD DETERMINE CAUSE OF DEATH IS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW. POLICE SAY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AT THIS POINT THAT ANYONE BROKE INTO THE HOME, OR THAT THERE WAS ANYONE INSIDE OF THE HOME WITH JOHNSON PRIOR TO HIS DEATH IN LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, TOM LEHMAN WGAL NEWS EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, TOM, THANK YOU. AS WE CONTINUE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS, THE COMMUNITY NOW REACTING TO THE NEWS OF THAT TEEN’S DEATH AND THE CIRc*msTANCES SURROUNDING HIS PASSING. LET’S GO TO BARBARA BARR. SHE CONTINUES OUR TEAM COVERAGE ON THIS PART OF THE STORY TONIGHT. BARBARA. AND, LORI, DETECTIVES HAVE BEEN HERE AT THE JOHNSON HOME AND TALKING WITH NEIGHBORS. IN FACT, ONE, WE SAW JUST ONE INSIDE A FEW MINUTES AGO. BASICALLY, THEY’RE ALSO TRYING TO GET SOME MORE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, HOME VIDEO POSTED ONLINE BEFORE JUSTIN JOHNSON’S DEATH SHOW A FOOT CHASE INVOLVING OTHER BOYS AND A RACIALLY INSENSITIVE REMARK. IT’S UPSET NEIGHBORS AND THIS COMMUNITY IS ALWAYS SMILING. IT SEEMS PRETTY NICE. KID JUSTIN JOHNSON WOULD HAVE TURNED 17 TOMORROW. HE DIED OF CARDIAC ARREST FRIDAY NIGHT. NEIGHBOR ROSHAN KHADKA IS UPSET AFTER WATCHING DISTURBING VIDEO IN THE HOURS BEFORE HIS DEATH. CAPTURED ON HOME SURVEILLANCE VIDEO. I SAW A VIDEO IN SOCIAL MEDIA. IT LOOKS HORRIBLE OVER THERE THAT LOOKS LIKE CHASING BY OTHER KIDS, POLICE SAY. JOHNSON TOLD HIS DAD HE WAS GOING TO PLAY TAG WITH FRIENDS. THE VIDEO SHOWS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A COUPLE OF BOYS CHASING JOHNSON, AND SOMEONE MAKING A RACIALLY INSENSITIVE COMMENT. OTHER NEIGHBORS ARE SHOCKED AND SADDENED BY WHAT HAPPENED. IT STARTS AT HOME. YOU NEED TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THAT YOU KNOW THIS DOESN’T MATTER. WE’RE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, YOU KNOW AND YOU KNOW, CHILDREN SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE AFRAID TO GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE TO BE CALLED OUT OF THEIR NAME BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, JOHNSON WAS A SOPhom*oRE AT CENTRAL DAUPHIN HIGH SCHOOL. THE DISTRICT ACKNOWLEDGED THE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE COMMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. RESIDENTS HOPE ADMINISTRATORS DO MORE TO COMBAT RACISM. MAYBE GOING TO COMMUNITY, TALKING WITH THEM, MAYBE GIVING TRAINING TO THEIR TEACHERS OR STUDENTS AS. AND LAURA UPPER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, POLICE SAY THAT THE VIDEO DOES SHOW JOHNSON RETURNING HOME AND HE APPEARS TO BE UNHARMED. BUT I SPOKE WITH THE SPOKESPERSON, WITH THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE JOHNSON FAMILY. THEY ARE GOING TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY TO TALK ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE SITUATION. AND THE SPOKESPERSON TELLS ME THEY ALSO HAVE MORE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO THAT THEY PLAN TO RELEASE AT THAT PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE IN DAUPHIN COUNTY, BARBARA BARR NEWS EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, BARBARA, THANK YOU. AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN FLEMING OF DAUPHIN COUNTY RELEASED A STATEMENT EXPRESSING HIS CONDOLENCES. IT GOES ON TO SAY, QUOTE, MY OFFICE HAS BEEN CONTACTED AND MADE AWARE OF A SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT APPEARS TO SHOW OTHER TEENAGERS CHASING AFTER JUSTIN AND USING INSENSITIVE LANGUAGE DURING THAT THEIR PURSUIT BIGOTRY HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR COMMONWEALTH, A PLACE CREATED TO WELCOME ALL THOSE SEEKING SAFETY FROM OPPRESSION. AND WE’VE LEARNED THERE WILL BE A MEMORIAL FOR JUSTIN TOMORROW NIGHT THAT WILL BE HAPPENING AT KOONS PARK AT 5:00. THEY WILL MARK HIS BIRTHDAY AND ALSO MEMORIALIZE HIM. AND OUR COVERAGE OF THIS STORY CONTINUES RIGHT ON WJHL.COM. THERE YOU CAN SEE THE TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS JUST RELEASED BY POLICE AFTER A SIX ALARM INFERNO IN STEWARTSTOWN, YORK COUNTY OVER THE WEEKEND. TONIGHT, THE CAUSE OF THE DEVASTATING FIRE IN AN OLD VACANT FURNITURE FACTORY IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. NEWS ED WEINSTOCK JOINS US LIVE FROM STEWARTSTOWN TONIGHT. ED? YEAH, JERRY, A LOT OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS OUT HERE IN THE SOUTHERN END OF YORK COUNTY. STATE POLICE, THE FIRE MARSHAL AND SOUTHERN REGIONAL POLICE LEADING THIS INVESTIGATION. BUT SO FAR, NO WORD ON WHAT CAUSED THIS SIX ALARM FIRE. POLICE HERE IN SOUTHERN YORK COUNTY ARE LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF VIDEO THAT WOULD SHOW PEOPLE OR VEHICLES OUTSIDE THIS OLD FACTORY BUILDING BEFORE FLAMES ENGULFED IT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE FACTORY FIRE SPREAD FAST, ACCORDING TO PEOPLE ON MILL STREET. THAT’S THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR THE OLD FACTORY. IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS, FLAMES SHOT HIGH INTO THE AIR AND THERE WERE WORRIES ABOUT HOT EMBERS THAT MIGHT SET NEARBY HOMES AND BUSINESSES ON FIRE. THIS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FIRES EVER IN YORK COUNTY. HISTORY LIT UP THE WHOLE AREA, THE WHOLE TOWN, LIKE THE SUN WAS OUT. I WAS STANDING AT THE BANK. I WAS ALMOST UP AGAINST THE BACK WALL. YOU COULD FEEL THE HEAT HITTING YOU IN THE FACE. THE FIRE WAS STILL SMOLDERING THIS MORNING. IN FACT, I’M STILL SEEING EVIDENCE OF SMOLDERING GOING ON RIGHT NOW BEHIND ME IN THIS SMOLDERING MAY CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. TONIGHT, FIREFIGHTERS HERE IN STEWARTSTOWN, THIS IS THE EUREKA FIRE COMPANY, ARE WARNING PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR FIRE SCENES TO BE CAREFUL. THERE WERE APPARENTLY SOME INCIDENTS INVOLVING CARS THAT DROVE OVER FIRE HOSES AND THAT, ACCORDING TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, CAN BURST FIRE HOSES AND DISRUPT THE WATER SUPPLY. AND OF COURSE, PUT FIREFIGHTERS AT RISK. IN SOUTHERN YORK COUNTY, ED WEINSTOCK WJZ NEWS EIGHT. ED. THANK YOU. STATE POLICE SAY A 63 YEAR OLD WOMAN DIED IN A HOUSE FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING IN PENN TOWNSHIP, PERRY COUNTY, NEAR MARYSVILLE. MERCY DISPATCHERS SAY IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON RAILROAD STREET. THE WOMAN HAS NOT YET BEEN IDENTIFIED, AND THE LEBANON COUNTY CORONER HAS IDENTIFIED THE MAN KILLED IN A SILO COLLAPSE OVER THE WEEKEND. AS BRIAN KENDALL. STATE SOUTH ANNVILLE TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY THE 31 YEAR OLD WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE THE SILO, ABOUT TWO HOURS INTO ITS INVESTIGATION. POLICE ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN WHAT CAUSED THE COLLAPSE ON MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD. THEY SAY THE 70 FOOT TALL SILO WAS FILLED WITH 600 TONS OF MATERIAL, AND AN AUTOPSY WILL BE DONE TOMORROW ON A MAN FOUND IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER OVER THE WEEKEND. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE DAUPHIN COUNTY CORONER TELLS US HE HAS NOT YET BEEN IDENTIFIED, AND SWATARA TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY PEOPLE OUT FISHING FOUND THE BODY SATURDAY MORNING NEAR A BOAT LAUNCH OFF ROSS AVENUE. STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER SOMEONE SHOT A MOVING VEHICLE ON INTERSTATE 83 IN YORK COUNTY. YOU CAN SEE THE BULLET HOLE IN THE BACK OF THE SUV. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR MILE MARKER 18, IN SPRINGETTSBURY TOWNSHIP. POLICE SAY THE BULLET WENT THROUGH THE REAR WINDOW, THEN THROUGH THE SUV HITTING THE REAR VIEW MIRROR AND FRONT WINDSHIELD. THREE PEOPLE, TWO PARENTS AND A YOUNG CHILD WERE INSIDE A DODGE DURANGO AT THE TIME WAS OCCUPIED BY THREE PEOPLE. ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WAS A ONE AND A HALF YEAR OLD BABY IN THE BACK SEAT IN A CAR SEAT, WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND IN THE AREA OF MARKET STREET EXIT WHEN SOMETHING CAME CRASHING THROUGH THE BACK OF THEIR WINDSHIELD. POLICE SAY NO ONE IN THE VEHICLE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. THE BULLET WAS RECOVERED IN THE CAR. IT’S NOT CLEAR IF THIS IS A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT. POLICE SAY IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING, CALL STATE POLICE. A FORMER FACULTY MEMBER AND WRESTLING COACH AT CENTRAL DAUPHIN EAST HIGH SCHOOL IS CHARGED WITH INSTITUTIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT. LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP. POLICE SAY 27 YEAR OLD EMILY RAJAS HAD SEX WITH THREE CDE STUDENTS BETWEEN DECEMBER AND APRIL, ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS. RAJAS HAS ADMITTED TO POLICE THAT SHE DID IT. SHE WAS PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE WHEN THE ALLEGATIONS FIRST AROSE AND HAS NOW RESIGNED, AND THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT RELEASED A STATEMENT OVER THE WEEKEND SAYING IN PART, THIS STUDENT SAFETY IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO SUSTAINING OUR CURRENT SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT, INCLUSIVE TO ALL STUDENTS. THE UNION REPRESENTING HACC FACULTY HAS FILED A PETITION FOR CONTEMPT AGAINST THE COLLEGE’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES. THE UNION SAYS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CONTINUES TO WILLFULLY VIOLATE AN OCTOBER COURT ORDER TO OPEN ITS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS TO THE PUBLIC. THE UNION SAYS THOSE SUBCOMMITTEE’S DECISIONS DETERMINE HOW MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE SPENT. NEWS EIGHT REACHED OUT TO HACC FOR ITS REACTION IN A STATEMENT, THE SCHOOL SAID THE COLLEGE STRONGLY DISAGREES WITH THE ALLEGATIONS. IN THE PETITION FILED BY THE UNION AND INTENDS TO VIGOROUSLY DEFEND ITS POSITION. PENN STATE HEALTH HAS VOLUNTARILY PAUSED ITS LIVER TRANSPLANT PROGRAM AT MILTON HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER, AND IN A STATEMENT, THE HOSPITAL SAYS IT IS GOING TO UNDERGO A PERFORMANCE REVIEW WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING, OR ALSO REFERRED TO AS UNOS. THE HOSPITAL SAYS THE DECISION TO INACTIVATE THIS PROGRAM COMES AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT CLINICAL PROCESSES AND DOCUMENTATION WERE IDENTIFIED. PENN STATE HEALTH SAYS IT HAS NOTIFIED 63 PATIENTS AND ARE WORKING WITH OTHER LIVER TRANSPLANT CENTERS TO TRANSITION THEIR CARE. AND THE STATEMENT GOES ON TO SAY, THIS OUR HEALTH SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE WORKING WITH UNOS TO ENSURE THAT OUR LIVER TRANSPLANT PROGRAM MEETS THE PATIENT’S NEEDS AS EFFECTIVELY AND SAFELY AS POSSIBLE. COMING UP NEXT, KEEPING TRACK OF ROAD PROJECTS CAN SEEM LIKE A FULL TIME JOB, BUT THERE IS A WAY YOU CAN KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S GOING ON. I’M EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER ANNE SHANNON THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT’S GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND BREAK OUT THE SHORTS, THE T SHIRTS. AND HOW ABOUT THE GOLF CLUBS THIS AFTERNOON? HERE’S A LOOK AT OVERLOOK GOLF COURSES. GOLFERS GETTING IN WITH THIS SUMMER-LIKE WARMTH THAT’S BEEN OUT THERE THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. GORGEOUS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AS WE CHALLENGE RECORD HIGHS. BUT TOMORROW, BE PREPARED FOR SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS, ESPECIALLY AFTER LUNCHTIME AND THROUGH THE EVENING COMMUTE. JUST MAY SEE ISOLATED SHOWERS FOR YOUR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IS LOOKING DRY. TEMPERATURES STAY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR MUCH OF THIS WEEK AHEAD. I’LL TALK ABOUT THAT MORE COMING UP. THE TEN DAY