Victim Transported to Hospital After Shooting Himself

Monday, 11:20 a.m.:

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Sunday, 11:23 p.m.:

A pair of blue latex gloves sat crumpled and thrown on the front step of a home in the 200 block of Coventry Road in the Fairless Hills section of Falls Township Sunday night.

Inside the home, patrol officers and a detective processed what one patrolman called a “crime scene.”

According to scanner reports and several different neighbors, police engaged in a standoff with a barricaded subject, believed to be a “distraught” man, at the house for an extended period of time before police radioed for a ambulance crews to transport a  subject from the house with a gunshot wound to the chest. The subject suffered a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound just before 9 p.m., according to scanner reports.

“The ambulance guys took someone away from the house on a gurney,” the next-door neighbor of the house where the incident took place told LevittownNow.com.

The neighbor, who was outside walking his dog after all the commotion had ended, said police asked him to remain inside his house and could be heard using a loudspeaker to ask the man to come out.

As the ambulance with the victim headed to St. Mary Medical Center, it was flanked by at least four police cruisers. Middletown Township police cars were dispatched to help close roads so the EMS truck could get to the hospital quickly.

Officials closed Coventry Road between Bedford and North Oxford Valley roads during the reported standoff.

“Police are on my street in Fairless Hills telling us to stay inside,” Amber Seals wrote about the incident on the LevittownNow.com Facebook page at 7:57 p.m.

Along with Falls police vehicles, a Lower Makefield unit sat in the driveway.

Additional details and confirmation of scanner and neighbor reports were not given by police at the scene.

Original Story:

Police responded to reports of  a barricaded subject on Coventry Road in the Fairless Hills section of Falls Township Sunday night.

According to scanner reports, one victim was taken from the scene to St. Mary Medical Center with a gunshot wound.

Several police cars escorted an ambulance with the victim to hospital, radio reports stated.

More details as they come in.