Man Fires Gun Into Montco Home, Barricades Himself Afterward: Police

ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA — An eastern Montgomery County man is facing a felony charge for allegedly firing a gun outside of his window and striking a nearby home, with the bullet lodging in a wall just above the doorway to a master bedroom, according to police.

Abington Township Police were sent out to the 2600 block of Arnaud Avenue in the Glenside section of the township on Sunday evening at around 8:15 p.m. after dispatchers received a call of 'shots fired' into a residence.

Officers at the scene found a bullet hole in the front exterior wall of the home and upon closer examination discovered that the projectile had passed through an interior wall by an upstairs bathroom and became lodged in the wall just above the master bedroom doorway, according to police officials.

A resident of the home had been in the master bedroom at the time but was not injured in the incident.

Shortly after responding to the Arnaud Avenue home, officers received another call about shots being fired possibly from the area of an apartment along the 2600 of Mount Carmel Avenue, police said.

When officers arrived at that location, they found numerous shell casings directly beneath a second-floor apartment unit window at the rear of the residential complex, according to police.

Police said that the apartment window had a direct line of sight to the nearby home that was hit by a bullet.

When officers knocked on the door to the apartment unit, an individual at first opened the door, but then quickly slammed it shut and locked it upon seeing officers and the individual subsequently barricaded himself inside the apartment and refused police commands to come out, according to the police department.

Abington Police called in a tactical team, which was subsequently able to make contact with the man, later identified as Spady, ultimately convincing the man him to come out of the apartment and surrender.

Police secured a search warrant for the apartment and ended up recovering a firearm that police believe was the gun used to fire at the nearby home.

Investigators said that the incident was not a targeted attack but rather a case where Spady was allegedly firing the gun outside of his window at random.

Court records show that Spady was arraigned on Monday morning before Magisterial District Judge John D. Kessler, who scheduled a preliminary hearing for Nov. 30.

Spady was charged with a felony count of discharge of a firearm into occupied structure.

Bail was set at $10,000 and Spady was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, according to the criminal docket sheet in the case.

The incident occurred in a section of Abington Township that is right across the border with neighboring Cheltenham Township.