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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Deputy
Kyle
Pagerly
was
shot
and
killed
while
serving
a
warrant
as
part
of a
fugitive
task
force
at a
home
on
Pine
Swamp
Road
in
Albany
Township.
When
task
force
members
arrived
at
the
scene
the
suspect
ran
into
the
woods.
Deputy
Pagerly
and
his
canine
pursued
the
suspect.
When
officers
located
him
he
opened
fire
with
an
AK-47,
striking
Deputy
Pagerly
in
the
head.
Other
officers
returned
fire
and
killed
the
subject.
Deputy
Pagerly
was
flown
to
Lehigh
Valley
Hospital
where
he
succumbed
to
his
wounds.
Deputy
Pagerly
was
a
U.S.
Army
veteran
and
had
served
with
the
Berks
County
Sheriff’s
Department
for
five
years.
He
also
served
with
the
Spring
Township
Fire
Department.
A Berks County deputy sheriff and a 25-year-old suspect armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and wanted on burglary and weapons charges were killed in a shoot-out in Albany Township on Pine Swamp Road near Hawk Mountain Road around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
State police in Hamburg identified the officer who was killed as 28-year-old Kyle D. Pagerly and the suspect as Matthew M. Connor, 25, of 26 Pine Swamp Road in the Kempton section of Albany Township.
According to a news release from state police, a fugitive task force comprising members of the Berks County Sheriff’s office, state police from the Hamburg barracks and the federal marshals service attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Connor for burglary, criminal trespass, simple assault, terroristic threats, recklessly endangering another person and a weapons charge for illegally possessing, selling or transferring firearms.
When the task force arrived, they were speaking to Connor’s girlfriend when Connor ran out of the back of the house into the woods. Members of the detail followed him into the woods. Pagerly, a K-9 officer, came upon a rise in the terrain and Connor came up over the rise armed with an AK-47. State police said Connor ignored an order to drop the weapon, and gunfire was exchanged.
Connor was shot and killed at the scene. Pagerly was wounded and flown by helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he died.
The news release from state police does not specify which officers discharged their weapons. The investigation is ongoing.
Court records show state police in Hamburg filed a criminal complaint against Connor on Tuesday, charging him with burglary, criminal trespass, persons not to use fire arms, three counts of terroristic threats, four counts of simple assault and four counts of recklessly endangering another person. Trooper Matthew S. Brady from the Hamburg barracks filed the complaint.
State police said the charges stem from incidents that occurred Monday at his home at 26 Pine Swamp Road and at a nearby residence at 43 Pine Swamp Road. Berks County tax records show both properties are owned by Maurice L. Connor and include one-story homes. The property at 25 Pine Swamp Road contains about 12.5 acres and the property at 43 Pine Swamp Road is nearly a quarter acre in size.
The Berks County Sheriff’s Department website, says Pagerly was born in Reading and graduated in 2001 from Wilson High School in West Lawn, Berks County. He also was a U.S. Army Military Police graduate and served in Kosovo in 2002 and Iraq in 2002. He was promoted to sergeant in 2004.
He graduated from the Reading Police Academy in 2005, federal Bureau of Prisons basic training in 2006, Berks County Sheriff’s Department in 2006 and Philadelphia Police Canine Academy in 2009. He also was a lieutenant in the Spring Township Fire Department. He K-9 partner Jynx is a German Shepherd.
Born
in
Reading,
PA
Graduate
Wilson
High
School
2001
United
States
Army
Military
Police
Graduate
2001
Military
service
Kosovo
2002,
Iraq
2003
–
2004
(Sergeant)
Reading
Police
Academy
2005
Federal
Bureau
of
Prisons
Basic
Graduate
2006
Berks
County
Sheriffs
Department
2006
Township
of
Spring
Fire
Department
Lieutenant
Philadelphia
Police
Canine
Academy
2009
SOURCE: http://themunz.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/deputy-sheriff-kyle-pagerly-berks-county-sheriffs-department-pennsylvania-eow-wednesday-june-29-2011/