Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
Already in state prison, a Warminster man has now been charged with murder in relation to the death of his wife in Falls Township.
Charges of third-degree murder were filed Thursday by the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office against Andrew Lawrence Ryan, 33. He will be arraigned in September.
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Ryan was charged after his wife Robin Ryan, 33, died in a medical facility on April 27. The 33-year-old man was already serving a seven to 20 year state prison sentence since last September after pleading no contest on charges of aggravated assault, leaving the scene of an accident involving death or injury, recklessly endangering another person, DUI, and reckless driving.
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According to court papers and prosecutors, the Ryans were “bickering” on the evening of July 24, 2017 after grabbing a few drinks as they drove in Andrew Ryan’s silver Ford pickup truck along Lincoln Highway near Oxford Valley Road in Falls Township. Robin Ryan ended up flying out of the pickup truck with a trailer attached. Robin Ryan struck the pavement and ended up being hit by the truck’s landscaping trailer.
Robin Ryan was severely hurt in the crash and fellow motorists stopped to help her. Her husband fled the scene.
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After hearing the dispatch for the crash, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper stopped Andrew Ryan on Trenton Road near Elmwood Road a short time later.
In speaking with detectives, Andrew Ryan had said he was intoxicated at the time and downed four beers and two shots of tequila before driving.
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Following the crash, Robin Ryan was kept alive by medical assistance. She was using feeding and tracheostomy tubes.
The Ryans have a young daughter and were married in 2015.
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.
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