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.
