‘I’m afraid he’s going to find me and hurt me,’ Teen said a day before the shooting killed her, her mother

Fearing for her ex-boyfriend, a 19-year-old woman filed for an emergency order of protection from abuse last week, a day before he shot three of her family members and involved in a police shooting that caused her death, records show.

Gabriella Morgan filed the emergency PFA against her ex-boyfriend Ricky Shannon, 22, on Thursday in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County. The next day, she was found dead in a truck that Shannon had been driving when he became involved in a shootout with state police following an attack. 40 mile high speed chase between Lancaster and Dauphin counties.

When seeking the PFA, Morgan wrote that Shannon had abused and harassed her in the last few months of their relationship.

“I’m afraid he’s going to find me and hurt me,” Morgan wrote in court documents approved by a judge.

In September, she said Shannon locked her in a bedroom of his home on the 500 block of 11th Street in Altoona for hours. When he finally released her, Shannon told Morgan he hoped she would be “abused and jumped,” according to court documents.

Morgan called Altoona police during the September incident and her parents drove from their home in Mount Joy Township to pick her up. Shannon messaged and called Morgan 40 times the next day, she wrote in the PFA.

She eventually returned to Shannon and his home in Altoona.

Court documents show that Shannon threatened multiple times to cut off Morgan’s body parts if she left him. He also hacked into her email and social media accounts and destroyed her property, including her PlayStation, she wrote.

“I fear he will call again and harass me, but I also fear for my life,” Morgan wrote in court documents filed Nov. 7.

Shannon was served the order around 1 a.m. on Friday. Shortly thereafter, he left his home in Altoona and drove two and a half hours to Lancaster County to find Morgan in Mount Joy Township.

He knocked on the door of her family’s apartment and started shooting when her stepfather opened the door, officials said. The gunfire killed Morgan’s mother Kimberly Day, 41, and wounded her stepfather and 20-year-old sister. It remains unclear whether Morgan was injured in that shooting.

She left with Shannon in his red pickup truck, who then fled from state police. After a lengthy high-speed chase, police said, Shannon shot at troopers, who returned fire.

Shannon and Morgan were found dead in the truck from gunshot wounds in Dauphin County. It is unclear whether Morgan died from injuries sustained by Shannon or troopers.

Morgan’s PFA appeared to trigger Shannon’s violent outburst, police said, but he had filed a PFA against Morgan two days earlier in Blair County. In his Nov. 5 filing, Shannon asked a judge to evict her from the home he shared with his mother in Altoona.

Shannon accused Morgan of making threats, causing property damage and throwing things at him in the PFA, and a judge granted a temporary injunction, which not only deported her but also prevented her from contacting him or post about him on social media.

Temporary orders are routinely granted, but full orders are only granted after a hearing at which both parties can present evidence. That hearing was scheduled for November 14.

In recent days, Shannon posted on social media that he was angry about the breakdown of the relationship. On Wednesday he posted: ‘I just want to say sorry for putting people through this. I haven’t eaten in three days and I’m not even hungry. I’m trying to eat. I’m getting sick and I don’t feel well now.”

Police said during a news conference on Friday that they were unaware Morgan was in the truck with Shannon when a trooper performed a PIT maneuver, hitting the truck’s bumper, to force the truck to a stop. Dark conditions, window tint and an airbag that deployed during the crash prevented troopers from spotting the 19-year-old earlier, police said.

Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said his office has extensive body camera and police car footage to review as part of their investigation into the police shooting.

Police said Shannon was legally allowed to purchase firearms and had one gun with him during the chase and shootout.

A GoFundMe was created to cover Morgan and Day’s funeral expenses.

Christine Vendel contributed to this report.