The investigation into the officer-involved shooting Monday near Port Allegany could take weeks to complete, officials said.
Since Monday, several details of the incident in which Chad Setzer, 42, of 6147 Route 155, Port Allegany, was shot and killed by a member of the state police have been released.
Some information that came out early on has since been corrected — the handgun Setzer used to shoot at police was stolen, but not from a gun shop, as the probable cause for a search warrant had indicated.
The handgun was stolen from a residence near the gun shop, and there was no burglary at the shop itself.
On Thursday, a state police spokesman, Cpl. Patrick McMackin, explained, “The gun was taken from Wright’s Notary across the street.”
Setzer had been a self-employed contractor who had done work at the residence. The homeowner said Setzer may have been the one who took the handgun, according to the police.
Court records state five troopers and a Port Allegany Borough Police officer were at the home to serve an arrest warrant on Setzer, and the police established a perimeter around the house. When Setzer came outside, he fired “more than one shot at the officers present,” said McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer.
A single shot was fired by police, Shaffer said.
Autopsy results were released Wednesday by McKean County Coroner Mike Cahill, who explained the autopsy was done Tuesday in Pittsburgh at the office of Dr. Cyril Wecht. The official cause of death, Cahill said, was a gunshot wound to the head.
The district attorney’s office will investigate to determine if the shooting was justified, according to a spokesman for the state police.
On Thursday, Shaffer said, “I would expect the investigation to take several weeks.”
According to state police protocol, the trooper who fired the fatal shot, who has not been identified by authorities, will be put on administrative duty until the investigation is concluded. A simultaneous investigation is conducted by the state police internal affairs division.
