Investigators said the former part-time officer opened fire when police approached him while serving a warrant in Bala Cynwyd on Wednesday morning.
The shooting happened on the unit block of Old Lancaster Road.
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The man was identified as 38-year-old Francis Collier, who had most recently served as a part-time officer with the Morton Borough Police Department.
Officials said he had been on leave while under investigation and resigned from the department in December.
According to the district attorney's office, officers observed Collier getting into his car around 3:48 a.m. near Old Lancaster and Edge Hill roads, and confronted him.
Investigators said Collier fired at officers, who returned fire, fatally wounding him.
Police remained at the scene throughout the morning, searching for shell casings and towing a Jeep Grand Cherokee that Collier was in at the time of the confrontation.
One of the women whose allegations launched the investigation said she is struggling with mixed emotions as the case ends without a trial.
"There was, you know, sadness, anger. Sadness mainly for my childhood self," Tori Payne said in an interview with Action News on Wednesday night.
Tori Payne, Collier's niece, said she came forward in December 2025 along with another female family member to report years of sexual abuse they said began when they were around 5 and 6 years old.
At the time, Collier was a teenager babysitting them in Drexel Hill, according to charging documents.
Payne said, as an adult, she learned Collier had become a part-time Morton police officer and had seen photos on social media of him with children while serving in his role as a police officer. She also learned he had served on the Delaware County Child Abuse and Exploitation Task Force.
"Once I saw him with children, it lit a fire in me that just told me that it was my due diligence to protect any future children," she s
Morton Borough police said Collier was placed on leave immediately after the investigation into him began.
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Action News obtained a photo of Collier in which he's seen with children. According to charging documents, photos like it are the reason why the victim chose to come forward to police.
The victims were repeatedly raped between 2001 and 2004.
The case was later turned over to the Pennsylvania attorney general's office, which charged Collier with rape on Tuesday.
Sources also said that while serving in law enforcement, Collier had been assigned to the Delaware County Child Abuse and Exploitation Task Force.
The Montgomery County Detective Bureau is handling the investigation into the fatal shooting.