April Shooting Suspect Charged With Aggravated Assault: Police

UPPER GWYNEDD TOWNSHIP, PA — A Montgomery County man who was wanted in connection with an April shooting that left two people in need of hospitalization was arrested this week and is now sitting in jail on $99,000 bail awaiting disposition of the charges.

Damian Quantay Thomas, 24, of North Wales, was charged Tuesday by Upper Gwynedd Township Police with a host of criminal counts, including four felonies and eight misdemeanors, in connection with a shooting along the 600 block of Sumneytown block the morning of April 16.

Police said that Thomas was taken into custody early Tuesday morning by U.S. Marshals and Upper Gwynedd Police Detectives at a home he had been staying at in Philadelphia.

The shooting incident, which Patch previously reported, was believed to be domestic in nature.

Police said they had become aware of the incident after the two victims went to Abington Hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds — one person was shot in the head and the other in the leg.

Their present condition was not divulged by authorities.

The Upper Gwynedd Township Police Department said investigators subsequently discovered that Thomas was saying with an acquaintance at a home in Philadelphia, and both local officers and U.S. Marshal's fugitive taskforce members went to the residence to pick Thomas up Tuesday.

A criminal docket sheet in the case shows that Thomas is facing numerous felony aggravated assault counts, as well as numerous misdemeanor counts of simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Thomas was arraigned on Tuesday evening by Magisterial District Judge Albert J. Augustine, who set bail at $99,000.

Thomas was taken to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after failing to post bail, court records show.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 11 before Magisterial District Judge Suzan Leonard.

Records show that Thomas is being represented by a public defender.