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“This does not occur right here,” one resident mentioned.
The predominantly Amish group in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania, is shocked and scared after a 23-year-old pregnant Amish woman was killed this week, a group member instructed ABC Information.
“Everyone seems to be shocked — this does not occur right here,” mentioned Charleen Hajec, a pharmacist who was born and raised in Spartansburg. “Everyone seems to be speaking. It is scary and irritating.”
On Monday afternoon, police responded to a house in Sparta Township, the place they discovered Rebekah Byler useless, Pennsylvania State Police mentioned.
Byler’s demise is taken into account a murder and “police are aggressively investigating,” authorities mentioned. Her explanation for demise has not been launched.
No suspects are in custody, Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Cindy Schick instructed ABC Information on Thursday.
Police are “wanting into all leads,” Schick mentioned, noting that “nothing is standing out” as a attainable motive.
Police are interviewing group members and Schick mentioned the Amish group is cooperating with the investigation.
Sparta Township is a small township in Crawford County, simply exterior of the borough of Spartansburg and about 35 miles southeast of Erie, Pennsylvania.
When Hajec heard what occurred to the younger Amish girl she mentioned she could not consider a homicide would occur in Sparta Township, which she referred to as a “tight-knit group.”
“The surface world would not get in,” Hajec mentioned. “To have one thing this tragic … it would not occur right here.”
An Amish man who is aware of Byler’s household, and requested to stay nameless, instructed ABC Information her demise is devastating.
“We’re individuals who consider in God and switch to him throughout a time like this,” he mentioned.
Police have requested the general public to report any suspicious folks, vehicles or exercise within the space of Fish Flats Street to the authorities at 814-663-2043.
