PA Man Matthew Vanzandt ID’d As Lancaster Suspect In Fatal Stabbing Of BF Ian Shannon

LANCASTER TOWNSHIP, PA. (THECOUNT) — Matthew Vanzandt of Stroudsburg, PA, has been identified as the suspect in a fatal stabbing at a Lancaster condo Wednesday.

Vanzandt, 30, confessed to fatally stabbing his boyfriend, 31-year-old Ian Shannon inside a Lancaster complex. He is now facing homicide charges.

Investigators believe Shannon ended a relationship with Vanzandt shortly before the alleged attack. He was found inside the dwelling stabbed to death on a bed.

Police were called to a townhouse near Lancaster early Wednesday morning when a neighbor heard screaming but no one answered the door, reported WGAL.

Vanzandt reportedly showed up at a hospital in Allentown covered in blood and confessed the crime.

Authorities say he was covered in blood and had a knife.

The district attorney says he admitted to killing his boyfriend.

A neighbor let police into the garage at the townhouse.

Officials say they found the victim in a bedroom stabbed and slashed a number of times.

Neighbors call it unsettling.

“It’s shocking cause you don’t really expect that around this neighborhood. Good people here,” said neighbor Jake Vadell. “Just to know that could be a couple hundred feet from where you live this behavior could be happening, and someone just died, is killed, messed up.”

Vanzandt does face homicide charges for that death in Lancaster County.

Geo quick facts: Lancaster Township is a civil township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is in the central area and it immediately surrounds Lancaster City. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 16,149 – Wikipedia.