đź”´ Three found dead inside Northampton home; suspect barricades himself for hours
đź”´ Wellness check turns into deadly police standoff
🔴 DA calls incident a homicide, praises officers’ “heroic restraint”
NORTHAMPTON, Pa. — A man looking for his girlfriend, whom he had not heard from in two days, brought police to her parents’ home, where the woman and her parents were found dead inside.
Northampton police said Steven Keczely had not found Deborah Castiglia at her Doylestown home on Saturday and could not reach her by phone. On Sunday, he drove to her parents’ home on Heather Way in Northampton, where he saw his girlfriend’s car in the driveway. He knocked on the door several times but there was no answer and all the lights were off.
When Keczely returned on Monday, Deborah’s brother Kevin Castiglia, 55, came to the door dressed in a robe. Castiglia told Keczely that Deborah was not at home and had probably gone on vacation. Keczely said the brother pointed a “Psycho type chef’s knife” at him and told him never to come to the house again or “I will kill you.” Castiglia left and called police…