Crime & Safety
Triple Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 2 Injured In Lower Bucks Co.
Middletown Township Police is investigating the shooting that took place over the weekend.
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — One man is dead and two others were injured after a gunfire exchange in the township's Levittown section over the weekend, police said.
The Middletown Township Police and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the shooting at 10:30 p.m. Saturday at a home on Quickset Road in the Quincy Hollow section of Levittown.
Police responded to the report of an armed person before the call was upgraded to shots being fired.
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Police officers found a man with a gunshot wound lying outside the home. He was pulled to safety, and officers began lifesaving efforts. The man died at the scene, police said.
Two other shooting victims — a woman with a head wound and a man shot in the torso and leg —were taken to local trauma centers and are expected to survive, police said.
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Police said those involved in the shooting all knew each other. At least two men were armed and exchanged gunfire.
No charges have been filed at this time. Police did not have any information on the cause of the shooting at this time.
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