An Easton man is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed a Good Samaritan who was trying to help him out and then showed a cellphone video of the victim to his mother.

Jeffrey Knoble, 25, is charged in the shooting death of Andrew White.

On March 11 around 8:30 a.m., Knoble’s mother reached out to Easton Police. According to the mother, Knoble called her around 6:30 a.m. earlier that day claiming he was in the car of a person he had just shot. He also told her he needed clothing and was coming to the house, according to investigators.

After Knoble never showed up at the house, his mother left her home on the 1300 block of Liberty Street in Easton. As she was driving on Northampton Street around 7:30 a.m., she found her son, police said.

The woman told police Knoble got into her vehicle and said he had just shot and killed someone. He then allegedly showed her a video on his cellphone that showed him inside a room.

"She also stated the video depicted the body of a nude, black male, thin build, tall and lanky lying face down on a bed in the corner of the room,"  said Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli. "She further described blood on or around this unknown male."

Knoble allegedly told his mother he had stripped the man and then shot him in the head. The woman told investigators she became scared and dropped her son off at Northampton Street before notifying police.

Investigators began searching for Knoble and found him later in the day inside his mother’s home on Liberty Street leading to a standoff situation. Knoble eventually surrendered to authorities.

Around the same time a woman contacted police and informed them that her friend, later identified as 32-year-old Andrew White, had been missing for a while. Police determined White was last seen at the Quality Inn at South 3^rd Street and Larry Holmes Drive in downtown Easton.

Police arrived at the motel later that night and found White dead inside a room with a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators gathered evidence inside the room and matched it to a gun Knoble allegedly owned that was found at his mother’s home on Liberty Street.

Investigators determined that earlier that day, White had allowed Knoble to stay inside his motel room. Officials say they believe the two were friends and that White was trying to help him out. It was during that time that Knoble allegedly shot and killed him.

Officials did not specify the circumstances surrounding the shooting but say Knoble will be charged with homicide and robbery in addition to a terroristic threat charge. They also said Knoble was affiliated with a gang though they don’t believe White’s death was gang-related.

Police described White as a Good Samaritan who was well-liked in his community and was simply trying to help out a friend by giving him a place to stay. They also say he had no criminal record and don't believe he was affiliated with any gang. 

White was also heavily involved in the Boys and Girls Club of Easton, according to the Express Times.

Officials continue to investigate the incident and are trying to determine if Knoble disposed of any additional evidence. If you have any information, please call 610-250-6635.

A Philadelphia woman was struck and killed by a piece of flying plywood during a windy day in New York City only four months before her wedding day.

Tina-Thuy Nguyen, 37, was walking east on West 12th Street in Greenwich Village shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday. At the time, sustained winds were near 30 mph and even hit as high as 45 mph in other parts of the city.

The strong wind gusts caused a 4-by-8 piece of plywood to fly off a security fence at a construction site across the street. The plywood then struck Nguyen at a high speed, police said.

Nguyen collapsed to the ground and hit her head on the sidewalk. She suffered severe head trauma, bruising and lacerations, according to investigators.

Nguyen was pronounced dead shortly after midnight at Bellevue Hospital. A Medical Examiner will determine an exact cause of death.

Nguyen worked at a real estate company prior to her death. She had lived in Philadelphia since she was 14 but moved to New York eight months ago to be with her fiancé, according to a family friend. The two were set to get married in July.

Her fiancé Alejandro Beitler released a statement Wednesday.

"She always saw the best in everyone," he wrote. "She was always reminding me to see the same. We were together for five of the best years of our lives. We planned to be married in July of this year. The family and I have decided to bury her in Philadelphia. This is the most devastating loss. She was the woman of my dreams. I hope people will remember her by seeing the best in one another and treating each other with true kindness."

It was a night to remember for the oldest son of Officer Robert Wilson III. The Philadelphia 76ers gave 10-year-old Quamier Wilson a tour and a few gifts before Wednesday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons at the Wells Fargo Center.

It was all part of a special night in which the team hosted the Fraternal Order of Police. Sixers shooting guard/small forward Jason Richardson volunteered to bring Quamier into the locker room prior to the game. The boy met every player as well as head coach Brett Brown.

Quamier also received an autographed jersey and sneakers. Sixers power forward/center Nerlens Noel also invited him to the court for a pre-game shootaround.

The Sixers previously showed their support for Quamier’s dad earlier this month by wearing Officer Wilson t-shirts during pre-game warmups.

Wilson died back on March 5 after being gunned down during an attempted robbery at a North Philadelphia GameStop store. The 8-year veteran assigned to the 22nd District was in the store doing a security check and was in the process of buying a game for Quamier as a reward for good grades when the gunmen entered.

Police called Wilson a hero who drew away fire from store employees and continued to shoot at both suspects, even after being hit. Two brothers, 30-year-old Carlton Hipps and 26-year-old Ramone Williams, have been charged with the officer's murder.
 

Maya Rigler, the 10-year-old girl from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania battling cancer for the second time, reached her fundraising goal.

Donations in a fundraiser created by Maya and Alex's Lemonade Stand hit the $100,000 mark Monday.

"It was really cool," Maya told NBC10. "I was like, in the hospital bed, then I was just like, 'Wow, $100,000!'"

Maya has an orange-sized tumor on her pancreas formed by a rare type of cancer called atypical Ewing's sarcoma. Doctors must shrink the tumor before they can remove it. The girl already fought and won a fight against a Wilms tumor on her kidney when she was 2-years-old.

Despite her own health scare, Maya is working to help other kids like her by raising money for pediatric cancer research.

"She said that maybe the reason that she got through this is so she could help other kids," said Maya's father Peter Rigler. "It was a pretty powerful thing to say."

NBC10 told Maya's story last month and less than 24 hours later, donations to her virtual fundraising stand jumped by more than $10,000.

Donations listed on the website ranged in amounts -- $3 from one man, $500 from a rabbi.

Her initial fundraising goal was $100,000. As of Wednesday night, she has raised $105,078.

"She's a pretty determined little girl so I'm not so surprised," said Maya'a mother Stacy Rigler.

On Wednesday Maya and her parents, who are both local rabbis, met with Jay and Liz Scott, the heads of Alex's Lemonade Stand. The foundation is named after the couple's daughter Alex, who died in 2004 after raising more than $1 million for cancer research.

"The world is a different place today for kids with cancer than it was when Alex was around," Jay Scott said. "I think because of people like Maya it's gonna be a different place in a couple of years than it even is today."

Liz Scott told NBC10 Maya reminds her of her daughter.

"The fact that she was going through something but she wanted to do something to help other kids and it was just so generous," she said.

Maya's family also learned that her tumor is responding to chemotherapy.

Even though she reached the $100,000 mark, Maya has no plans of slowing down. She has now set a new fundraising goal: $250,000.

CLICK HERE to donate.

A Washington man is set to travel to Philly after he was accidentally invited to a stranger's bachelor party.

Joey DiJulio of Seattle says it all started with an unexpected email back on February 11.

Joey received an invite to Jeff Minetti's bachelor party in Philadelphia. There was only one problem. Joey had no idea who Jeff was.

“I was trying to make sense of it," Joey said. "I was so confused. I was looking through different addresses and didn’t know who anyone was. I looked and saw my name on the CC and realized it was a typo. I was getting entertainment while being a fly on the wall.”

Jeff explained the mixup to NBC10.

“About fifty people had been in the email, so no one really noticed that anything was wrong,” Jeff said. “I sent a list over to my brother Michael, someone had made the mistake, I’d be happy to throw him under the bus for this one."

For a while Joey kept quiet and was amused by the numerous emails he received about some of the events for the weekend. This included gambling, shuffle board competitions and some other festivities as well. Then it all came to a quick hold.

Jeff's brother Michael Minetti, who sent the initial email, wrote a new message, saying he needed a headcount to give the bartender for the venue. As he was calling out people he hadn’t heard from, Joey finally replied with the following message:

The westbound I-676 on-ramp in Old City is closed after a tractor trailer overturned.

The accident occurred Wednesday night on the I-676 westbound on-ramp coming off the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philadelphia. Two people were in the tractor trailer at the time though police say they were not injured.

The I-676 westbound ramp is currently shut down. Two lanes are currently being diverted off at the 5th Street exit and speeds have been reduced to 25 mph. Drivers should expect major delays heading into Philadelphia.

Shortly before 11 p.m. State Police told NBC10 the ramp was reopened. They later said they were mistaken however and the ramp remains closed.

This story is developing. Stay with NBC10.com for updates.

After an investigation into the police involved death of Brandon Tate-Brown during a December traffic stop, the Philadelphia District Attorney announced the deadly use of force was "not a crime."

"The facts show a tragedy, a terrible tragedy, but not a crime," said District Attorney Seth Williams during a news conference Thursday at his Center City office.

Tate-Brown, 26, was shot and killed by Philadelphia Police on the 6600 block of Frankford Ave. on Dec. 15 after police said he reached for a loaded gun in his rental car during a routine traffic stop. The gun was stolen last year, officials said.

Williams said an investigation into the "difficult car stop scenario" showed criminal charges were not warranted against the officers.  Authorities reviewed surveillance video from the scene, examined ballistic evidence and considered multiple witness accounts -- reports taken almost immediately from people who did not know each other and were at different vantage points, he said.

During the early morning traffic stop, an officer approached the white Dodge Charger rental car on each side of the vehicle, Williams said. One of them spotted a gun between the passenger seat and the console and asked Tate-Brown to exit the vehicle, he said.

"He broke away from officers three separate times," described Williams. "He went around the car towards the passenger side where he tried to reach inside to the place where he knew he had put his gun."

At that point, one officer fired his weapon and Tate-Brown was hit in the head.

The officers immediately called medics, who arrived and loaded Tate-Brown into an ambulance. But Williams said Thursday the 26-year-old man died instantly.

Williams said he spoke with the victim's family before the press conference and that his heart goes out to her, as well as Tate-Brown's other family members and friends.

Following her son's death, Tanya Dickerson, questioned the officers' decision to discharge their weapon.

"I would like to know why the police, law enforcement, has the right to kill instead of disabling," said Dickerson, who added she last saw her son only hours earlier. "It has to stop, this is enough already."

Dickerson said that her son served five years in prison for aggravated assault stemming from a 2007 beating where he was charged with attempted murder. She said that since his release from prison, Tate-Brown was trying to get his life back on track — working at a rental car place — being a "good guy."

Beside the aggravated assault charge, Tate-Brown also pleaded guilty to weapons charges during his 2008 trial for attempted murder, according to court records.

The officer who fired the shot gave his statement to police  and was placed on desk duty while the internal investigation was conducted.

Dickerson said Tate-Brown's family contacted the NAACP to also investigate the case.

This was the 26th officer-involved shooting in Philly last year and the 4th deadly police-involved shooting.

A fight involving students at a south Jersey high school sent a security guard to the hospital just before lunch Thursday, police said.

The brawl which involved several students broke out around 11 a.m. just outside Atlantic City High School on 1400 N. Albany Ave. in Atlantic City.

One of the school's security guards was rushed to a nearby hospital with unknown injuries, police said.

Three students were taken to the public safety building.

No word on what caused the fight to occur.

This story is breaking. Check back for details.

Teeara Black

Teeara Black, 19, of the 700 block of North 49th Street in Philadelphia, was last seen on March 6 after she left home to go to her father’s house on the 5700 block of Pine Street to pick up money. She never arrived however, according to investigators.

Police say Black later texted her aunt who she lives with from a phone that doesn’t belong to her. Black’s own phone has been off since she left.

Black’s family told police she has gone missing in the past but never for this long. The family also said she met a new boyfriend whom they don’t know.

Black is an African American female standing 5-foot-1 and weighing 110 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing a red t-shirt, black woven pants, Timberland boots and a black leather jacket with fur. She was also carrying a burgundy purse.

If you have any information on her whereabouts, please call the Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183 or 911.

Lauryn Thompson (Update: Found Safe 3.18.15)

Lauryn Thompson, 16, was found in central Pennsylvania and reunitied with her family, according to the Oxford Township Police.

Omayra Rivera (Update: Found safe)

A man who was shot at last year and refused to cooperate with police is now dead -- believed to have been shot by the same person who went after him before, Newark police said Wednesday.

The man was killed and two others were injured in a triple shooting shortly after 2 p.m. in front of a barber shop on Clinton Place in Newark, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

Authorities didn't immediately reveal the identity of the man who was killed. Police said he was believed to have been a gang member.

The makers of Gosnell, a crime drama about Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell who was convicted of murder, announced Nick Searcy will direct the film.

Searcy, who stars in the FX series, Justified, said he was both excited and humbled by the opportunity to direct Gosnell, according to an update from the movie's crowdfunding page.

The update also explained Searcy will focus on three important aspects of the story: what really happened in Philadelphia, why it was allowed to happen, and why it seemed like no one wanted to talk about it after it happened.

Gosnell ran an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia for decades. He was convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were born alive before having their necks cut with scissors.

The former doctor was also charged with involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of a patient, as well as 232 other counts related to abortion, conspiracy, and infanticide.

The film was originally pegged as a straight-to-TV movie, but because donations from thousands of contributors have exceeded expectations, it has now become a theatrical release.

Money for Gosnell was raised through Indiegogo, a popular crowdfunding site, where it took off quickly. The campaign reached its original goal in May of 2014, and now has over 27,000 backers who have contributed over $2.2 million. This ranks the film as the highest-grossing movie campaign on the site.

The production company for the film, Ann and Phelim Media, announced on their page that they're still looking for another $500K to paying actors, cover production fees, locations, scheduling, and various other necessary endeavors.

For a more in-depth background on Gosnell and his story, check out this NBC10 article.

As the anniversary approaches, several viewers are sharing their stories of a record-breaking storm that dropped 50 inches of snow on parts of the Pennsylvania region back in 1958.

Read some of the stories below:

Joe Scheider

Thinking back due to the new storm arriving here tomorrow. I was 12 years old then living in Birdsboro, Pa area at that time. I remember being in school; when it started thinking it wouldn't be much. As we now know, it was big. We were basically snow IN for almost a week. Snow removal was not quite the same back then. No electric due to down power lines, so no power to run the well pump. The next farm up has a spring that I could walk to for water. we had a gas stove so we were in luck with that. Also so made it possible for me to make some candles everyday from the wax left over from the night before. It was just a lot different back then when it came to snow.

Michele Leary Baird

In 1958 I was 11 yrs. old and lived with my family on Chetwynd Circle in Paoli. I recall two snow storms late in March that year, but I don't remember which storm came first.

One storm was about 36" and school was closed for 3 days. The neighborhood kids had a great time sledding and making snowmen & snow caves... I recall the mothers on Cobblestone Drive coming out of their homes to tell the plow truck drivers not to drop any cinders on the big hill so all the kids could go sledding.

The other big snow storm that March was not as deep, maybe 18". The snow was very light/dry and the temperature stayed extremely cold for days. The winds were also strong for days; as soon as a road was opened up it would be closed again as the snow blew and drifted. We missed a week of school for this storm. I remember playing a lot of canasta with my girlfriend. We fortunately didn't lose power during either of these snow storms.

Peg Kidon

My husband and I were in the area at the time of this storm.  He, being 13 years old, lived in North Coventry Township, Chester County, and I lived in Montgomery County in Lower Pottsgrove Township, both outside of Pottstown.  He has told me stories of how he and his neighbors shoveled their road (E. Cedarville Rd.) all the way out to Hanover St.  His family had coal, heat and a gas stove, so they had warmth and food. When it was possible to travel, many of his relatives came to stay at their house where it was warm, and there was food.

I, being 11 years old, recall living for a week with my other five family members in our teeny, tiny den where there was a fireplace which worked poorly, and smoke would back up into the room. My father would cook food for us on the back porch on a Sterno burner.  The only time we would leave the room was to sleep at night under my daddy's heavy army blankets in our freezing upstairs bedrooms.

Bill Barlow

I lived in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and I remember that it was a heavy, wet snow. Downingtown lost power for several days. Emergency shelters were set up in the Downingtown Methodist Church and the Alert fire company. One of the problems that occurred in the community is that several residents tried to cook on charcoal grills inside their homes.

The word got out and the local Boy Scout Troops banded together and went door to door to tell residents that they were not allowed by order of the borough council. I remember my father trying to make a pot of coffee using a propane torch to heat the pot. Back in the 1950's there were no automatic coffee makers.  I also believe school was closed for a week.

What I disliked the most was having to go to bed at 7:30 because with no power the whole house was dark and cold. We survived by throwing extra blankets on the bed. Downingtown is 30 miles west of Philadelphia and if I'm correct, Philadelphia got very little snow. 

Kent Foster

I lived on Richard Road right off Valley Forge Park. We had no electricity for five days. My father tried to heat one room using charcoal and almost got us all sick. My brother got the worst of it. I remember when Channel 10 had a western town behind their building where the parking lot is now. Does anyone remember that? We were the first of the new homes on Richard Road. We needed a bulldozer to push the snow from our driveway which also tore up the driveway.

Clayton Owen

As I recall as I was 8 years-old and living in the suburbs of Malvern at the time. My father had a helicopter drop off a generator and some supplies off at our farm as we had been out of electricity for a number of days as he was the Commander of 111th Pa. Air National Guard stationed at the Philadelphia Airport. I believe that helicopter pictured was from his Air Guard.

Donnie Solinger

It seems to me we had two March snowstorms back to back in 1958 that were 19 inches each here in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Hildegard Lindstrom

I was living in Berwyn on a big estate in a house dating back to the late 1700's. I was in the 7th grade at Tredyffrin/Easttown Junior High School. We were fortunate enough to have bottled gas for our stove. We buried the food that needed to be refrigerated in the deep snow, melted snow for washing dishes or hands and tapped the hot water heater for drinking water. We were fortunate enough to have several large fireplaces in the house and plenty of wood so we kept warm. We were without power for almost a week as I recall and I know we were much luckier than some that lived in the newer homes.

Share your story with NBC10, email us at phillywebteam@nbcuni.com.

An earlier argument led to at least two men being hurt after a brawl broke out inside a Philadelphia Chinese takeout restaurant Thursday afternoon.

The incident played out at Asian Cuisine along Lindbergh Boulevard at Elmwood Avenue in southwest Philadelphia.

A group of people were in the store when an earlier argument between two men escalated into a fight around 4 p.m. One of the men involved stabbed another man and then that man shot the guy who stabbed him, said Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker.

After the initial stabbing some women also got involved in the fight, said Walker.

The stabbing and shooting victims were both treated in stable condition.

After the stabbing, investigators recovered the knife, said police.

A PATCO train became disabled Thursday afternoon leaving passengers waiting for another train.

The eastbound train became disabled east of Haddonfield around 4:25 p.m., tweeted PATCO.

It took about 20 minutes to load those passengers onto another train that took them to their destinations.

As SkyForce train hovered overhead, you could see the disabled train. PATCO warned to expect some delays as they operated on a single rail between Collingswood and Woodcrest.

No word yet on what caused the stoppage. PATCO said they would need to inspect the train before moving it.

By 5:30 p.m. the disabled train was moved to a service area and PATCO said trains would begin operating normally again.