MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A Muhlenberg Township police officer will not face charges after he shot and killed a knife-wielding man who charged at officers during a domestic incident last month, District Attorney John T.
Adams announced Thursday. Officers from the Muhlenberg Township Police Department were called to a home on Wagon Wheel Lane on Mar.
15 after a woman placed two 911 calls about her uncle who was acting threateningly. She told police her uncle, Stephen J. Hughes, suffered from alcoholism and had a mental health illness, and was locked inside a second-floor bedroom with a knife, investigators said.Hughes, according to the unnamed niece, lived at the home with his mother and had a history of violent outbursts.