By Freeman staff

ST. THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Pa.  — State police in Pennsylvania say troopers shot and killed an Ulster County man after responding to a report of a person trying to break into a house.

Police said Adam L. Schillinger, 27, of Saugerties, was fatally shot about 8 a.m. Saturday outside a house in St. Thomas Township, Pa., which is in the south-central part of the state, near the Maryland border.

A press release sent to the Freeman on Tuesday by state police in Chambersburg, Pa., said authorities were notified at 7:55 a.m. Saturday about a suspicious person outside the house and that while troopers were en route to the scene, they received a second report stating Schillinger had tried to force his way into the caller’s house and that he was armed with a handgun.

The press release stated troopers arriving at the house — on Bony Lane in St. Thomas Township — found Schillinger sitting in a pickup parked nearby and that he displayed a handgun toward the them, prompting them to fire at him.

Schillinger was pronounced dead by the Franklin County, Pa., Coroner’s Office, police said.

It was not clear how Schillinger was connected to the person in the house, if at all — the town where Schillinger was killed is more than 300 miles from Saugerties — and a trooper answering the phone in Chambersburg on Tuesday said an Associated Press description of the incident as a “domestic disturbance” was incorrect.

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