(SWANTON, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a Garrett County man who is believed to have died as a result of injuries sustained during a fight with his brother-in-law at their adjoining properties.<\/p>\n
The deceased is identified as Stephen Savage, 63, of Swanton, Md.\u00a0 He was pronounced deceased at the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, PA, on the evening of August 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 His body was taken to the Cambria County (PA) Coroner\u2019s Office for an autopsy.<\/p>\n According to the preliminary Maryland State Police investigation, shortly before 1:30 p.m. on July 30, 2020, troopers from the McHenry Barrack responded to a fight reported in the 800-block of Brant Road, Swanton.\u00a0 An officer from the Maryland Natural Resources Police arrived first and found a man, later identified as Savage, lying on the ground.\u00a0 The man said he needed help and emergency medical services personnel were summoned.\u00a0 A Maryland State Police helicopter responded and flew Savage to the hospital in Johnstown.<\/p>\n Upon their arrival at the scene, police also found the 56-year-old brother-in-law of Savage.\u00a0 The two live near each other and other family members.<\/p>\n Information and evidence developed during the preliminary investigation indicates Savage and his brother-in-law encountered each other on the afternoon of July 30th<\/sup> and Savage initiated a physical assault on the other man. \u00a0A fight ensued between the two.\u00a0 The brother-in-law is not being identified at this point in the continuing investigation because he has not been charged with a crime.\u00a0 Investigators are aware of a long-running feud between the two men.<\/p>\n Investigators have briefed the Garrett County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office regarding this investigation.\u00a0 Updates will continue to be provided to the State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office as the investigation progresses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (SWANTON, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a Garrett County man who is believed to have died as a result of injuries sustained during a fight with his brother-in-law at their adjoining properties. The deceased is identified as Stephen Savage, 63, of Swanton, Md.\u00a0 He was pronounced deceased at the Conemaugh Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19040,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions\/19040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}