FEBRUARY 20, 1999 UPDATE:

State Police have charged an 18-year-old Coudersport man with the shooting death Saturday morning of Kane Police Patrolman Steve Jerman. Timothy James Williams of Marvin Hill Road has been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, and other offenses. (One report says that Williams had been drinking heavily). State Police say that he was the driver of the car that officer Jerman stopped on Route 66 just south of town shortly after four in the morning. Although mortally wounded, Jerman managed to shoot and seriously wound Williams.

FEBRUARY 21, 1999 (Not from WLMI)

Early word on funeral arrangements for Kane Police Officer Steve Jerman are as follows:

Wednesday evening, February 24, there will be a closed-casket viewing at the Kane Area High School from 6-8 pm. This will be followed by an 8 pm service at the high school, and a police procession, presumably through town.

FEBRUARY 22, 1999

The funeral service for slain Kane Police Officer Steve Jerman has been scheduled for 8 o'clock Wednesday evening in the Kane High School auditorium. Friends may call there, beginning at 6 pm. The funeral service will be conducted by four ministers and will be broadcast on WLMI. The service will be carried via in-school video to the gymnasium where it will be projected on a large screen for any overflow people to watch.

A funeral procession will follow at approximately 9:30 from the high school into Kane, up Fraley Street and south past Southover Park where Jerman was shot, then back to the high school. Several hundred police officers are expected to attend to show their respects.

Meanwhile, flags are flying at half staff, and adults and young people are wearing red "say no to drugs" ribbons.

Sandy....Initial reports out of Kane on 11PM news stations tonight:

Nearly 1,000 police officers attended the funeral for Officer Steven Jerman tonight in Kane, PA...

The entire community was invited tonight to pay their last respects to Officer Jerman at the Kane Area High School between the hours of 6 and 8PM where Jerman's flaged-drapped casket sat in state on the stage of the auditorium...

At 8PM a funeral service was held which lasted approximately one hour and was broadcast live over WLMI Radio in Kane...

After the service, a funeral procession consisting of approximately 400 police cars with their lights and sirens going along with many fire engines, the hearse carrying the casket of Jerman, and several cars carrying family, friends, and dignitaries traveled through different areas of the Kane Boro and travled past the site where Jerman was shot. The line of vehichles stretched approximately four miles in length...

Local townspeople lined Main Street as the procession passed under a gigantic arch formed by the crossing of two extended ladders from aerial fire trucks; a large U.S. flag was suspended between the two ladders.

All three Erie TV stations broadcast Live reports tonight at 11PM from Kane...