Pennsylvania Man Arrested After Firing AK-47 At 7 Officers Over Mask Regulations
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after firing an AK-47 and handgun at 7 police officers after refusing to abide by mask regulations at a Bethlehem Township cigar store. Prior to the police shootout near his Slatington home, the suspect, 35-year-old Adam Zaborowski, entered Cigars International, refusing to wear a mask. After employees asked him to leave, he “became irate, grabbed two cigars from a shelf and exited the store without paying.” He then fired shots into the air, then twice at a staff member, but no one was injured.
The next morning, Slatington police attempted to serve a warrant for his arrest, but Zaborowski fled in a pickup truck and later got into a shootout with seven officers. Zaborowski was eventually hit, along with an officer, whose injury was minor. Subsequently, Zaborowski was charged with seven counts of attempted homicide and attempted first-degree murder of a police officer as well as aggravated assault and gun possession by a felon. And in the cigar store shooting, attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, reckless endangerment and two gun offenses.
Zaborowski’s defense attorney John Waldron, who’s defended him in the past, states, “He just wasn’t dealing well with the loss of his job, the loss of his child, just not handling the pandemic well. think he was getting stretched too tight.” He adds, “this is not his typical behavior pattern.”
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