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Jillian Pikora

Senior Assistant Managing Editor

jpikora@dailyvoice.com

Jillian is an editor and reporter based out of Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg. She has a degree in Political Science and is a former political campaign manager. For over a decade, she has worked as a staff reporter and freelance writer at Sisters Magazine, The Tempest, Huffington Post, CairoScene, and several other outlets. Before joining Daily Voice, Jillian worked as a digital news editor at Hearst's local NBC affiliate, WGAL News 8. She currently assists in managing Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; as well as reporting stories in Pennsylvania for Daily Voice.

Jillian Pikora's Contributions

Police & Fire

Convicted PA Burglar, Attempting Rape Leaves Shoes At Crime Scene: Police This is no Cinderella story, but the shoes left behind at a crime scene were a clue helping officials track down their suspect. Mohamed Camara has waived his right to a preliminary hearing following a horrifying burglar and assault, the Lancaster District Attorney's Office explained and court records confirmed. Camara of the 500 block of Saint Joseph Street, allegedly broke into a home in the 400 block of Fremont Street and another in the 500 block of Manor St. in Lancaster City in the early morning of Nov. 16, 2023. At 6:22 a.m. on Fremont Street, a woman — who had fallen back asleep a…

by Jillian Pikora

12/01/2023

Police & Fire

Drunk PA Gunman Randomly Shoots Then Steals Ring Doorbell: Police Early Friday morning, a 21-year-old man got drunk and supposedly began wandering around Lancaster randomly shooting a .9 millimeter handgun, authorities announced that same morning. David Ramos was found "intoxicated and a 9mm handgun was found in his possession," city police state in a release on Dec. 1. Before city police were involved, Manheim Township Police were called to a report of shots fired on the 800 block of New Holland Avenue around 1 a.m. Ramos was "walking around firing his weapon at random," the police said. While investigating the MTP officers heard more…

by Jillian Pikora

12/01/2023

Schools

Peeping Tom Student Secretly Records Franklin & Marshall College Girl's Bathroom, Police Allege Four victims have been identified as police continue to investigate a camera found in a Franklin and Marshall College girl's dormitory bathroom, Lancaster Police announced on Thursday, Nov. 30. F&M student John Riley has turned himself over to the Lancaster City Bureau of Police only after campus security identified him as the man they saw in the recordings placing the camera in the girl's dormitory bathroom. The City police had already been contacted by Franklin and Marshall College campus security after discovering "a hidden camera within a dorm bathroom by female stu…

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Police & Fire

PA Arsonist Lights Her Bed On Fire, Displacing 20 Neighbors, Hospitalizing Child: Police A 30-year-old woman has admitted to starting a fire that spread throughout 12 apartments — displacing 20 of her neighbors, and leading a child to be hospitalized — the Ephrata Police Department announced on Thursday. Savanna Ashley Parsons, "has been admitted to police that she had rubbing alcohol and a lighter on her bed prior to the fire starting and that she was alone in her apartment when the fire started. It was determined that the fire broke out in the area of her bed," as stated in the police release. The police claim she "intentionally" started the fire that broke out at…

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Police & Fire

Body Cam Footage Of Armed Crime Spree Has Lebanon DA Ruling Shooting 'Justified' Recently released bodycam footage showing just part of a 32-year-old man's crime spree has led Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf to rule police "justified" in shooting at him, as she announced at a press conference where she played part of the footage on Thursday. The South Lebanon Township police officer who shot Cesar Wilkins Romero-Colon, 32 of the 300 block of North Twelve Street of Lebanon was not named, but the two shots he fired at Romero-Colon are considered a justifiable "use of deadly force," the DA Hess Graf said. Neither shot hit Romero-Colon and the shots…

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Police & Fire

Osha Investigating Fatal Tractor-Tractor, Forklift Crash In PA (Update) Two coroners were called to the scene of a crash in Manchester Township on Thursday, according to the County of York Department of Emergency Services. A 30-year-old man died following the two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer and a forklift, the York County Coroner's Office explained in a release. The unidentified man was found unresponsive at C-P Flexible Packaging located at 15 Grumbacher Road at 11:10 a.m. on Nov. 30, according to dispatch. "It is unknown exactly when the incident occurred," coroner Pam Gay said. The details about how the crash happened are …

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

News

PA Driver On Clonazepam With BAC 2X Limit, Sentenced For Fatal High-Speed Crash A 31-year-old man will serve up to 20 years for killing a man while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in central Pennsylvania, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Derek James Sensenig will serve a minimum of eight years and a maximum of 20 years in prison as ordered during sentencing by Lancaster County President Judge David Ashworth. He faced the possibility of a minimum of seven years and a maximum of 34, the DA explained when he pleaded guilty. Sensening, of the 100 block of Fulton Street in Akron…

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Schools

Person Shot After Bizarre Incident Near Franklin & Marshall College: Police A shot person at Lancaster General Hospital told the police a strange story about what happened to them. Lancaster City officers were called to the hospital for a "walk-in shooting victim" at 12:27 a.m. on Nov. 30, the department detailed in a release. They arrived to discover "the victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries," as stated in the release. When the police interviewed the victim, they told them the following story: "The victim claims they were walking 'somewhere' in the city and were approached by an unknown black male, wearing a black ski mask and Gap sweatshir…

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Police & Fire

Missing Central PA Man Who 'Could Be Confused' Found Safe Police Say A South Central Pennsylvania man with a medical condition who was reported as missing has been found, police announced on Thursday, Nov. 30. Howard Curtis "walked away" from his home in the 100 block of Kennedy Street in Chambersburg around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Chambersburg police said. The police noted a special risk in this case: "Curtis suffers from a medical condition that may cause him to be confused." He was found on Thursday, according to the police who said: "Howard Curtis has been located and is fine."

by Jillian Pikora

11/30/2023

Police & Fire

Murder-Suicide: NJ Mom Of 4 ID'd After BF Shot Her In Gated Pocono Community A domestic incident turned into an apparent murder-suicide in a gated community near the resorts in the Poconos on Tuesday night, authorities announced. Leilani Ramos, a 37-year-old mom of four from Newark, NJ, died from a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds at 8:33 p.m. on Nov. 28, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio, detailed in a release the following morning. Pocono Township police were called by Leilani to a "domestic-related shooting" in the private gated community on Ski Side Drive, near Camelback Road in Tannersville around 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 28, as sta…

by Jillian Pikora

11/29/2023

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