Authorities say a deputy sheriff is dead following a shooting in Berks County Wednesday night.
The shooting happened around 8 p.m. at 43 Pine Swamp Road in Albany, Pa., authorities say.
State Police say 28-year-old deputy sheriff Kyle Pagerly was serving a warrant to Matthew Connors for burglary, criminal trespass and various other offenses. His girlfriend answered the door and while she was talking with police, the suspect slipped out the back and into the woods. Authorities followed him. Connors then threatened Pagerly with an AK-47. He was ordered to drop the gun, instead, a gun battle ensued.
Connors was pronounced dead on the scene, Pagerly was flown to the Lehigh Valley Hospital where he died from gunshot wounds to the body, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
Pagerly was a Reading native and served in the military in both Kosovo and Iraq.
Gov. Tom Corbett ordered state flags at the Capitol and state facilities in Berks County lowered to half-staff in honor of the fallen deputy sheriff.
A procession in memory of Pagerly is planned for Thursday afternoon and will take his body down Court Street to Eighth Street and then to Penn Street into West Reading. All roads will be closed during the procession.
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