UPDATED: Saturday, 12:41 p.m.:
Bucks County Detectives will spend Saturday gathering evidence and retrieving police car dash camera footage of Saturday morning’s police-involved shooting.
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Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler said early Saturday afternoon that his office will review the evidence and determine if the shooting of the man was justified.
“There seems to be very little question of what happened,” Heckler stated. “The windshield camera video seems to show it.”
When the investigating into the shooting has concluded, Heckler will send a letter to Morrisville Borough Chief George McClay with his determination.
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“I’m just happy the officer was not more seriously injured,” the district attorney said.
Original Story:
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A man is in critical condition and a Morrisville Borough officer is recovering from relatively minor injuries after a Saturday morning police-involved shooting.
A Morrisville patrol officer spotted a “suspicious vehicle” parked outside the 7-Eleven store at Pennsylvania Avenue and Bridge streets early Saturday morning. The officer turned their vehicle around and ran the plates on the car. The vehicle was reported stolen out of Bristol several days ago, Morrisville Chief George McClay said.
When the officer was investigating the vehicle, the driver put the stolen car in reverse, struck the officer in the arm and hit a patrol car, police said.
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At that point, the officer fired two shots, one of which struck the driver in the chest, police said.
The driver of the silver car took off and ended up crashing in the area of Snipes Farm and Route 1, near the Falls and Morrisville border, police said.
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The suspect was rushed to St. Mary Medical Condition and remained in treatment as of 9 a.m. Saturday, officials said.
The officer was taken to Aria Health’s Bucks County campus in Falls to have their arm injury tended to.
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Sources told LevittownNow.com the officer is a veteran of the department.
Police from several towns and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office were at the scenes Saturday morning.
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The investigation was underway as of 7:45 a.m.
LevittownNow.com Editor Tom Sofield and reporter Erich Martin contributed to this story.
Editor’s Note: This story was updated to reflect the incident happened at the 7-Eleven at Bridge Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, not Philadelphia Avenue.
