Francis Warren Leib served in the U.S. Navy.
Constable Francis Leib was shot and killed while accompanying a woman who was retrieving belongings from a room she rented at 14 North 16th Street in Harrisburg.
The landlord had been arrested several days earlier for assaulting the woman. A city alderman had requested that Constable Leib assist her with obtaining her belongings. The landlord was initially cooperative and let them in. As Constable Leib carried some of the woman's belongings down the stairs the subject appeared with a shotgun and opened fire, killing him instantly.
The subject then fired at the woman but missed. The woman was able to escape through a window and called police. The man, 52, was arrested, subsequently convicted of murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
Constable Leib was a U.S. Navy veteran and served as a part-time constable.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Constable Leib served with the Pennsylvania State Constable.
Thank you for your service to the Harrisburg community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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