Credit: Bucks County Department of Corrections
A fight between a boyfriend and girlfriend ended in violence Tuesday in Falls Township, police said.
Police responded to a home on Vermilion Lane in the Levittown section of the township just after 9 p.m. for reports of a domestic disturbance in progress.
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A woman told police that her boyfriend – David Root, 62 – had struck her in the face, under her left eye and grabbed her by both arms, pushing her against the bathroom wall, an affidavit of probable cause stated. Police took images of bruises on the woman’s face and arm.
The woman said the incident escalated when Root drew a pistol and held it to her head and threatened to shoot her, according to police.
The 62-year-old was taken into custody without incident and a Beretta semi-automatic pistol was recovered from the nightstand next to a bed in the home, police said.
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Root was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment. He was sent to county jail on 10 percent of $100,000 bail.
