Police from Langhorne and Middletown were among the two dozen or so law enforcement officials who rushed to an officer-involved shooting in Lower Southampton Thursday night.
The incident happened outside the Trevose Shopping Center on Brownsville Road around 9:30 p.m. and happened after a woman who was suspected of being suicidal threatened officers while she had a machete, officials said.
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Lower Southampton police Chief Ted Krimmel said the woman drove toward the officers, leading to a shot being fired.
The woman, per a Bucks County Courier Times report and law enforcement sources, ended up speeding through Bensalem and got away on I-95.
State troopers ended up catching the woman near Philadelphia International Airport not too long after the incident in Lower Southampton.
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No one was hit by the round that was fired by the officer.
Krimmel said the woman will charged in the future in Bucks County.
Police from Bensalem, Newtown Township, Northampton, Warrington and Warwick assisted at the crime scene along with the Bucks County Detectives.
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