June 7, 2007

• prayers and flowers

  12:45 over night a cop was shot near my house. There is a man hunt going on
  for the shooter. I heard the cops driving around since then.  I remember when
  things like this didn’t happen here. Then there was the shooting of the Amish
  girls, now this. Please keep this in your prayers.

  I will try to send post info later as it comes available. Hopefully they find the guy soon who
  did this.

  update at 6:50am—————————————-

  EAST EARL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An East Earl Township, Lancaster County, police
  officer was shot around 12:30 a.m.

   

  Police said Officer Greg Yarbough, a six-year veteran, told them he was on
  duty when he noticed a suspicious person at his own home.

   

  Yarbough said when he confronted the man, there was a scuffle and Yarbough
  was shot with his own gun.

   

  Yarbough is now at Lancaster General Hospital with a non-life threatening
  wound.

   

  They still haven’t found the guy who did it. They did recover the officers
  gun in a field. Hard to feel safe knowing the guy is still out here. Trusting in
  God to keep us safe but not sure about letting the children outside today.

   

  Will continue to keep you updated as I get info.

  Another update——————————————————————————————–
  EAST EARL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An East Earl Township, Lancaster
  County, police officer was shot around 12:30 a.m.

IMAGES: Shooting
Scene
Police said Officer Greg Yarbough, a six-year veteran, told them he was
on duty when he noticed a suspicious person outside his own home, which is along
Route 23 near the Shady Maple Smorgasbord.
Yarbough said when he confronted the man, there was a scuffle and
Yarbough was shot with his own gun.
“I don’t know the whole circumstance of how the firearm went off, OK. I
don’t know if the other individual had the officer’s gun or if just in the
struggle the firearm went off. I do not have that information as of this time,”
said Pennsylvania State Trooper Blain Hertzog.
Police said they have recovered the officer’s gun.
Yarbough is now at Lancaster General Hospital with a non-life-threatening
wound. Officials would not say where he had been shot.
The only description that police described of the individual Yarbough
scuffled with is that he was a man dressed in black.
Police appear to be scaling back their search in the area. The police
mobile command unit left the scene around 6:30 a.m., and many roads that were
shut down early this morning have reopened.