UPDATED: Man Murdered In Middletown Was ‘Targeted’

UPDATE: Police ID Man Murdered Outside Workplace

UPDATED: 11:07 a.m., Thursday:

A top Middletown Township police official said that man shot dead outside of a business Thursday morning was “specifically targeted.”

Detective Lt. Steve Forman told LevittownNow.com that the 52-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

“At this time, the homicide is believed to be specifically targeted to the victim and there is no risk to the general public,” he said.

Around 5:50 a.m., Bucks County 9-1-1 dispatchers received calls that a man had been shot in the parking lot of Kuusakoski Recycling at 900 Wheeler Way. Responding officers found the 52-year-old man with gunshot wounds. His co-workers at the facility were rending aid, police said.

Medics rushed to the scene and pronounced the man dead in the parking lot.

Forman said the man was shot as he and his co-worker arrived for work.

No arrests had been made as of mid-morning.

Bucks County Detectives and Middletown Township police processed the crime scene throughout the morning.

At least eight evidence markers were spotted surrounding the man’s body.

Original Story:

A man was killed in a shooting outside of a Middletown Township business.

The shooting was reported shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday outside of the multi-tenant warehouse and office building at 900 Wheeler Way. The shooting happened in the building’s large parking behind the Langhorne Post Office.

While police called the incident a homicide, they did not immediately release more information.

Detectives from the township police department and Bucks County District Attorney’s Office were at the scene.

The body, which was covered with a white sheet, was surrounded by at least eight evidence markers. Detectives grabbed pictures of the scene.

No charges had been filed in the case as of 8:30 a.m.

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