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UPDATE: Three Charged Following Grand Jury Investigation Into 2020 Murder
UPDATE: 7:13 p.m., Saturday:
A law enforcement source told LevittownNow.com Robert Shannon Christie, 36, of Trenton, was arrested in Trenton on Thursday night. He has to be extradited to Pennsylvania to face the charges.
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Original Story:
Pennsylvania State Police have filed an arrest warrant on charges of homicide and other offenses for a 36-year-old Trenton man.
According to an arrest warrant filed Thursday afternoon in District Judge Kevin Wagner’s district court and uncovered by LevittownNow.com during a routine check of court records on Friday, Robert Shannon Christie was listed as a suspect in a January 2020 homicide of Joshua McRae, 31, Trenton.
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Christie is being charged with two counts of criminal homicide, possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of an instrument of crime with intent, and single counts of first-degree murder, flight to avoid apprehension, tamper with or fabricate physical evidence, abuse of a corpse, and hinder apprehension or prosecution.
Law enforcement sources and court records revealed the filing came following a grand jury investigation. The grand jury’s presentment that led to the charges remains sealed.
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Christie was not reported to be in custody as of early Friday afternoon.
McRae died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds and being dumped on I-295 near the I-95 interchange in Bristol Township early on the morning of Sunday, January 19, 2020.
With the presentment remaining sealed, full details on the shooting death weren’t available in court documents.
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In the hours after McRae’s body was discovered, the highway was closed as the state police Troop M Criminal Investigation Unit processed the scene. A truck driver told this news organization at the time that troopers were combing the highway with their flashlights looking for evidence after the body was discovered.
In the days following the man’s body was found, troopers were across the area seeking details on the homicide. Troopers asked residents of Middletown Township’s Highland Park neighborhood if they heard gunshots in the hours leading up to McRae’s body being found.
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As part of the probe, the rear parking lot of The Raymond P. Mongillo Sr. Community/Senior Center on Trenton Road in Middletown Township was processed as a possible crime scene.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and state police didn’t immediately release more information on the case.
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