EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP, PA. (THECOUNT) — Tobias John Allen Click, 29, of Harrisburg, has died after allegedly fatally shooting Ernesto Rodriguez and holding Rodriguez’s girlfriend and her four children hostage Saturday morning inside an apartment in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Click was pronounced dead at 8:25 a.m. Sunday by the Cumberland County Coroner’s Office from injuries sustained after he shot himself, according to East Lampeter Township police.
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Police said Click allegedly shot Rodriguez inside an apartment at the Country Club Apartments complex in the 400 block of Aaron Lane in Lancaster early Saturday. Rodriguez’s girlfriend, who was Click’s former girlfriend, and her four children were then held hostage inside the residence.
Pennsylvania State Police later located Click in Cumberland County with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was transported to Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
Before his death, Click had been charged with first-degree murder, burglary, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse and related offenses in connection with the shooting and hostage incident.
The investigation involved East Lampeter Township police and Pennsylvania State Police. Authorities have not released further details in the information provided.
East Lampeter Township is in Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania, east of Lancaster city and within the broader Susquehanna Valley region.
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