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Whitehall Police Department

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Funeral Home, Police Station to Accept Derkosh Trucks 'Indefinitely'

Maddox Derkosh of Whitehall Borough was buried on Friday.

William Slater II Funeral Service in Scott Township, the place where friends and family visited 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh on Thursday after his tragic death at the Pittsburgh Zoo, will continue for the immediate future to collect toy construction trucks to be donated to a children's Christmas charity in Maddox's memory. Original plans were to collect trucks at Slater Funeral Service through Thursday, but a representative of the funeral service said on Friday that the toys collection will continue "indefinitely." The same can be said for the Whitehall Police Department, which serves the Derkosh family's home municipality of Whitehall Borough. A representative of the police station said that trucks can continue to be dropped off at the …

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Slater Funeral Services (in Chartiers Valley Patch), Whitehall Police Department (in Baldwin-Whitehall Patch), Borough of Whitehall Municipal Complex (Administrative Offices and Outdoor Recreation) (in Baldwin-Whitehall Patch), and 4 more ›

Monday, November 5, 2012

Police Confirm Zoo Mauling Victim to Be Whitehall Resident

Two-year-old Maddox and his family are Whitehall residents.

The mauling death of a 2-year-old boy at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday has shocked and saddened many area families. That is especially true in Whitehall Borough, as it turns out. Whitehall police Chief Donald R. Dolfi confirmed on Monday that the victim's family lives in Whitehall. Maddox, the victim, is the son of Jason and Elizabeth Derkosh, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting. Maddox was visiting the zoo with 34-year-old Elizabeth when he fell from the top of a platform railing to the ground inside of the pit area of an African painted dogs exhibit, according to a statement from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Pittsburgh police said that the child lost his balance after his mother lifted him in a standing position onto the 4-foot…

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Zoo Tragedy: Painted Dogs that Mauled Child Won't Be Euthanized. Should Outdoor Exhibit Be Changed?, Borough of Whitehall Municipal Complex (Administrative Offices and Outdoor Recreation) (in Baldwin-Whitehall Patch), and Whitehall Police Department (in Baldwin-Whitehall Patch)

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Ed M

11:51 am on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Why? Because a wild animal acted like a wild animal? This is a tragic accident.   more ›

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