Police kill one, rescue two from river near Dock Street Dam

Harrisburg, PA CBS-21 —According to a Facebook post from the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire Station around 3:30 a.m. emergency crews responded to what the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire Station #2 is calling the “most bizarre incident in years.”

TheFacebook postreads, when police and fire responded they found three people on the roof of a car in the middle of the Susquehanna River between Shipoke and Lemoyne near the Dock Street Dam.

The Harrisburg Bureau of Fire Station #2 says a man was attacking a woman with a knife.

Harrisburg police shot the man, according to the Facebook post. He fell into the river and has not been recovered.

According to the Facebook post, HBF rescued the woman and a toddler.

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