Screaming and fighting could be heard by a 9-1-1- dispatcher during a call for a shooting at the Country Manor Apartments in Middletown last Friday evening, police wrote in court papers.
Dispatchers received a call that a shooting happened in a B building apartment around 6:50 p.m. They learned that Ronald McGarrigle Jr., 41, Levittown, was engaged in a dispute with his father, which led to a struggle over a handgun and then the younger McGarrigle pulling a second handgun on his father, police said.
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Officer Stephen Andrews arrived at the back of the apartment building off East Lincoln Highway and placed McGarrigle under arrest without incident once he stepped outside of the unit, court papers stated.
Police Lt. Steve Forman told LevittownNow.com last Friday that McGarrigle fired a gun while the apartment was occupied by two pre-teen girls – ages 11 and 14 – and McGarrigle’s father. The elder McGarrigle and one of the girls were able to escape the apartment.
No one was injured.
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In court papers, police detailed that one bullet had been fired during the dispute in the living room of the apartment and became lodged in the wall of the kitchen.
A total of five guns were recovered and four were loaded, but not chambered with live rounds, police said.
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McGarrigle was arraigned hours after the shooting by on-call District Judge Jan Vislosky on charges of discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, terroristic threats causing serious public invoice, and reckless endangerment. He was sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $300,000 bail.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
