Police investigating fatal shooting on Grant Street in city

Williamsport police and the Lycoming County Coroner’s Office are trying to determine if a man found shot to death in a Grant Street apartment on Saturday afternoon was an act of suicide or a homicide.

“Investigators are still trying to determine what actually happened in the apartment,” County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said late Monday afternoon shortly after an autopsy on the victim was completed at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown.

Kiessling identified the victim as Reagan Pyle, 39, of Williamsport, who died in a second-floor apartment at 449 Grant St., where, according to a police news release, officers and paramedics were dispatched about 2:10 pm to investigate a report or “a shot fired with an expired person in the residence.”

Pyle lived on nearby Washington Boulevard, Kiessling said.

“Officers arrived at Grant Street and found an adult male with an apparent fatal gunshot wound. Officers also observed a firearm and other evidence at the scene,” the release said. Interviews were conducted with the tenants in the apartment building, police said. The coroner’s office was alerted to the death several hours after the shooting. Kiessling pronounced Pyle dead at the scene officially at 9:36 pm

Pyle died of a single gunshot wound to the torso, Kiessling said. ‘The manner of death is pending the outcome of the investigation. It will be listed either as a suicide, a homicide or undetermined,” he said.

District Attorney Thomas Marino said Monday his office was assisting city police in “gathering evidence,” but he had no additional information to release.

“Investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident is currently ongoing. If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact Agt. Aaron Levan at [email protected] or by clicking the ‘Submit a Tip’ link button on the police department’s web page,” the news release said.