NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — New details are emerging about an ongoing police investigation into the deadly shooting of a Luzerne County teenager last weekend.
17-year-old Hunter Sipple died after being shot Sunday, September 1 at a Nanticoke home.
On Thursday an 18-year-old man, who says the shooting was an accident, was willingly interviewed a second time by detectives.
New details emerge in Luzerne County shooting
28/22 News learned that investigators returned to the scene of the shooting looking for potential evidence.
I-Team reporter Andy Mehalshick is working on the story and will have live reports with the latest tonight on 28/22 News.
28/22 News is learning more Thursday evening about an ongoing police investigation into a shooting that claimed the life of a Luzerne County teenager last weekend.
17-year-old Hunter Sipple was killed, and an 18-year-old man says the shooting was accidental.
28/22 News I-Team Reporter Andy Mehalshick is working the story and joins us live from Nanticoke.
Police once again interviewed 18-year-old Michael Crawn Jr., who says he was fooling around with the handgun and it went off. And we also have confirmed, through this search warrant, that police returned to the scene of the shooting seeking possible video evidence.
28/22 News caught up with Michael Crawn Jr. as he stood outside Nanticoke Police Headquarters. He went willingly to be interviewed by detectives about the fatal shooting that occurred in his Nanticoke home on Sunday.
It happened around 4:00 p.m. at the home located on Minden Court.
According to court documents, when officers arrived on scene they found Crawn on the steps of the house holding Hunter Sipple in his arms. Sipple had been shot in the chest.
Crawn initially told investigators that he and Sipple were wrestling in the living room and they fell into a wooden cabinet, and a gun fell from a shelf of the cabinet and went off, striking Sipple.
But later in that same interview with police, Crawn says he was fooling around with the gun, a semi-automatic pistol, and it fired. Sipple later died at a hospital.
According to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the I-team, Detectives returned to the home Wednesday looking for possible security camera video and/or cameras. They removed a mini camera.
Crawn has not been charged with any crime. Police say their investigation is ongoing.
The coroner has not yet released information about the cause and manner of death, saying the investigation is ongoing. Again, charges have not been filed in this case.
