A man was arrested after a gunshot fired from his apartment led to an hours-long standoff at an apartment complex.
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Falls Township police said officers responded to a report of a gunshot at the Pennsbury Woods Apartments on New Falls Road around 6:40 p.m. Sunday.
Once they arrived at the complex, officers found a bullet had been fired through the door of one apartment and into the apartment across the hallway, police said.
A neighbor told a detective he heard a gunshot around 6:30 p.m. and then saw wood chips on the ground near his neighbor’s door. He said he observed a gunshot exit hole through the door and coming from inside the apartment, police said.
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Officers established a perimeter and determined the resident of the apartment where the gunshot originated had not left the building, police said.
The Bucks County South Emergency Response Team, a multi-departmental tactical unit, was called to the scene.
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Negotiators made contact with the resident around 8:50 p.m., but police said the man refused to exit the apartment for several hours.
Around 11:35 p.m., the man surrendered and was identified as Munajj Rashad Booker, 29, of Falls Township.
No one was inside the apartment where the bullet entered, and no one was hurt during the standoff.
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The incident brought police from around the area, who staged on New Falls Road and in the parking lot of District Judge John Galloway’s courthouse.
A shelter-in-place order was issued for residents in and around the apartment complex. It was lifted shortly before midnight.
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Booker was charged with discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure and reckless endangerment. He was preliminarily arraigned before on-call District Judge Charles Jonas at 4 a.m. Monday and sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $75,000 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.
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