UPDATE: Man Found Dead In Langhorne Suffered Gunshot Wound To The Head

UPDATED: 3:13 p.m., Friday:

As of Friday afternoon, investigators were still probing the death of a man found in Langhorne Borough.

Langhorne police Chief John Godzieba said at the scene that the body of the man was found just off the sidewalk by a person walking their dog along the 300 block of Bellevue Avenue just before 8:30 a.m. Drivers stopped and authorities were called.

The man had a gunshot wound to the head, and there was a trail of blood found along Bellevue Avenue. No weapons were recovered near the man’s body.

The man who died did not have identification on him, Godzieba said.

As of mid-afternoon, it was unclear if the man was killed in the borough or dumped at the scene, which sits about a half-mile from busy Route 1, the police chief said.

Detectives were talking to neighbors and seeing if their surveillance videos that may assist them.

Neighbors told reporters that they did not hear a gunshot leading up to when the body was found.

One woman, who lives in an apartment outside the scene and did not want her name published, said she only heard the ambulances responding and was asked a number of questions by Pennsylvania State Police troopers.

“It’s obviously bizarre,” she said. “I hope they can just figure it out.”

“It’s a quiet town with a low crime rate,” Godzieba said.

The half-square-mile borough’s last murder was on New Year’s Day 2015 when Kyle J. Simpson stabbed 58-year-old Stanley “Ernie” Taylor Jr., his uncle and brother of Langhorne Mayor Joseph Taylor, to death inside a home on North Bellevue Avenue.

Original Story:

An investigation was underway into what led to the death of a man in Langhorne Borough.

Langhorne Borough police, the Bucks County Detectives, and the Pennsylvania State Police were on the scene as of 11 a.m. Friday in the 300 block of Bellevue Avenue between Richardson and Gilliam avenues.

The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office confirmed there was an active investigation into a death in the area, but they did not release more.

Law enforcement sources confirmed the man was discovered to have suffered what appeared to be a gunshot wound.

Bucks County dispatchers sent police, firefighters, and medics to the area around 8:20 a.m. for a reported cardiac arrest. It was not immediately clear if the call was linked to the death.

A nearby resident who spoke with LevittownNow.com via phone said a police officer told her there was a shooting in the area.

Bellevue Avenue was blocked between Flowers and Gilliam avenues as Bucks County Detectives set up their crime scene response truck.