19-Year-Old Charged In Bristol Shooting

BRISTOL, PA — Police in Bristol Borough have charged a 19-year-old man with a history of violent criminal charges in a Sept. 22 shooting in which several shots were fired into a group that included children.

Troy Elliot Keys, of Bristol Township, is accused of firing multiple shots at an 18-year-old victim, borough police announced Tuesday. The target was standing in a small group on Wood Street that included a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old, according to police.

Keys already is in Bucks County Correctional Facility. He had been arrested in October by members of the U.S. Marshals Service on armed robbery charges stemming from a separate incident, a violent robbery, in Bristol Township.

During the Wood Street shooting, police say Keys got out of an SUV and fired shots from the intersection of Mulberry and Wood streets at about 5:41 p.m. The gunshots hit a nearby home and a round went through a second-floor window of Bristol Fire Co. on Wood Street, they said.

Keys is charged with criminal attempt to commit murder and 14 other counts in the shooting. In addition to the charges out of Bristol Township, police said Keys also is charged in a shooting in Middletown Township.

The case was investigated by Bristol Borough Police, Bristol Township Police, Middletown Township Police and the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.