Officers justified in fatal shooting of ex-Delco cop wanted on rape charges

Two officers were justified in the fatal shooting of an ex-Delaware County police officer who was wanted on child rape charges, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

Francis Collier, who worked as a part-time officer with the Morton Police Department in Delco, was shot and killed by police in Lower Merion on Feb. 25.

One day before the shooting, Lower Merion Township Police received information that Collier, who lived in the Bala Cynwyd section of Lower Merion Township, was wanted for the rape of a child by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office…

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