A Pennsylvania police department relied on a song by famed crooner Bing Crosby to end a Christmas standoff with a man who had fired multiple shots at officers.
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police department relied on a song by famed crooner Bing Crosby to end a Christmas standoff with a man who had fired multiple shots at officers.
Chester County SWAT officers responded to a report Christmas night of an armed man barricaded in a home near Pottstown at about 9 p.m. The man’s estranged wife, who was not in the home, called police and asked them to do a welfare check on him.
Police said Thursday that 34-year-old Nathaniel Lewis locked himself in the home with a rifle and ammunition and fired at police and SWAT officers throughout an overnight standoff with police that only ended when one of the officers sang “White Christmas” to Lewis over the phone.
