East Lampeter police say Tobias Click died Sunday after he was accused of killing Ernesto Rodriguez.

A coroner's pronouncement is a death. It is not a trial of the charges filed while he was alive. WGAL and PennLive say he died at 8:25 a.m. Sunday. WDAC's Monday item still has him in a Cumberland County hospital and still says he faces the charges. The woman who spoke to police is not named in these accounts. The children are not named either.

WGAL, updated at 11:47 a.m. EDT Monday, reported that East Lampeter Township police said Tobias John-Allen Click died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and that the Cumberland County Coroner's Office pronounced him dead at 8:25 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. PennLive reported the same pronouncement, the same time, and the same cause, citing East Lampeter police. WDAC's Monday story still describes him as facing first-degree murder and other charges, and it says he remains in custody at a Cumberland County hospital. It says he was located with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It does not say he died. The coroner's clock in the WGAL and PennLive accounts is the later fact. A hospital line that does not mention the death is an earlier status.

What police say happened inside the house is an accusation that will not be tried if he is dead, and the two Monday accounts do not use the same verbs. WGAL reported Click, of Susquehanna Township, was accused of shooting and killing Ernesto Rodriguez inside a home in the 400 block of Aaron Lane early Saturday. It reported his former girlfriend told investigators that she and Rodriguez, her current partner, received social-media messages early Saturday threatening to kill them, and that the couple believed Click sent them. It reported she told police she wanted to call authorities and that Rodriguez persuaded her to wait. PennLive, citing the woman and the district attorney's office, reported the two received death threats on social media from an account they believed was his, discussed whether to call police, and went back to sleep. Both reported the couple woke shortly after 6 a.m. and found he had come in through a downstairs living room. WGAL reported surveillance video from inside the residence appeared to show that entry. WGAL reported the woman told investigators Rodriguez reached for a handgun and was shot multiple times before he could. PennLive reported the district attorney's office said he reached for a handgun and was shot multiple times before he could grab it. Officers found him dead, both reported.

The account of what happened next is where a sentence appears in one paper and not the other. WGAL reported that after the shooting, Click pointed the gun at his former girlfriend as she sat with her four children, repeatedly threatened to kill her, and kicked Rodriguez in the head as he lay motionless. It reported she received several calls, that he ordered her to answer, that she then told him police were coming, and that he fled and threatened to kill himself. PennLive reported prosecutors said he pointed a handgun at her and the children, threatened to kill her, repeatedly kicked Rodriguez in the head, and forced her to beg for her life before fleeing. WGAL does not use that last clause. PennLive does not describe the phone call or a threat to kill himself at the door. She is not named in either story. The children are not named. They are not described beyond the number four and the charges that count them.

The chase and the charge list are what was pending when he was shot. WGAL reported state police traced his phone through Franklin and Cumberland counties, spotted his vehicle going north on Interstate 81 near mile marker 44.8 in South Middleton Township, and pursued him into Dauphin County, where the vehicle stopped near Arsenal Boulevard and Herr Street in Harrisburg. Troopers found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, WGAL reported, and he was taken to a Cumberland County hospital, where he remained until the Sunday morning pronouncement. Before his death, WGAL reported, he was charged with first-degree, second-degree, and third-degree murder, burglary, kidnapping to inflict injury or terror, abuse of a corpse, false imprisonment, and four counts each of kidnapping a minor, unlawful restraint of a minor, and false imprisonment of a minor. PennLive's Monday story states the killing, the hostage allegation, and the death. It does not reprint that full count list. East Lampeter police told WGAL the investigation is still active. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.