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William Henkle had more than 20 alcoholic drinks in his system when he attacked police with a chain saw outside his Forty Fort home last month, toxicology tests reveal. Henkle, who was killed by a flurry of police bullets following the attack, had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.495 percent, according to test results recently received by the Luzerne County coroner's office. The 40-year-old's blood-alcohol concentration was more than six times the amount (0.08) to be considered legally drunk in Pennsylvania. No traces of illegal drugs were found in the two blood samples and one urine sample tested at National Medical...

Robert Griffin suggests chain-saw incident could have ended differently. FORTY FORT (PA) - A borough psychologist is questioning whether a seven-minute standoff could have been resolved differently after a River Street man was shot while charging at police with a chain saw. Robert Griffin, whose practice is just a short distance from where William Henkle was gunned down last Monday, describes the incident as a lose-lose situation for all involved. “It would be very hard to look at this as a success,” said Griffin. “The best you can say is everybody lost, but at least some people didn’t lose more.”...

State police have classified the deadly police shooting of a Forty Fort man who attacked a state trooper with a chain saw as "suicide by cop," said the commander of the state police barracks at Wyoming. William Henkle, 40, charged at 10 police officers with a chain saw before he was shot more than a dozen times outside his home at 378 River St., shortly before 5 a.m. Monday. State Police Capt. Kenneth Hill, commander of Troop P at Wyoming, said Henkle struck Trooper Michael Hartzel in the shoulder, lower back and buttocks with the chain saw before the Forty...

WILKES-BARRE – Ever since state and local police unleashed 39 shots at a chain saw-wielding man outside a Forty Fort home, police have heard rumblings from the public, questioning their actions: Why didn’t the officers use a taser gun instead of pumping 17 bullets into 40-year-old William Henkle? Why didn’t police back off and discuss a better plan of attack? And why not wait for the saw to run out of gas? The answer, state police Capt. Kenneth Hill said, to each is simple: The officers did not have tasers. There was no time to talk strategy. And, it’s impossible...