Shooting at training exercise alleged

ALLENTOWN, PA. >> A Pennsylvania man was charged in a shooting during a training exercise that left another man paralyzed from the neck down, police said.

Cody Saylor, 29, of Allentown, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated assault and a weapons

charge, the Easton Express-Times reported.

Saylor was a role-player during a weapons training session at Threat Assessment Tactical Solutions in Stroudburg, according to police.

Investigators learned Saylor exchanged his training paintball gun for his own Glock pistol before leaving the facility for lunch and shot Darin McMahon, 46, in the neck on Sept. 15, Stroud Area Regional police said in a release.

McMahon was flown by medical helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury

Township.

Saylor was released on $75,000 unsecured bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 10.

The Express-Times’ call for comment to Saylor’s attorney was not immediately returned.

Threat Assessment Tactical Solutions deferred comment to an attorney, who did not immediately return a phone message.

Police: Woman found slain in bathtub, youth to be questioned

PHILADELPHIA >> Police say a woman was found slain in the bathtub of her north Philadelphia home, and a teenager recently placed in foster care in her home is to be questioned in the case.

Officers responding to the home in the Germantown neighborhood shortly before 1:30 a.m. Wednesday reported finding Renee Gilyard covered in blood. Gilyard, 65, mother of a city police officer, was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers said she had two stab wounds to the neck and multiple defensive wounds.

Police said the contents of the victim’s purse had been dumped on her bed, and her sport utility vehicle was missing. Hours later, the SUV crashed in west Philadelphia with four teens inside — including the 17-year-old foster son, who had been in the victim’s care for only three days.