Montgomery County Man Gets Prison For Norristown Farm Park Gunpoint Rape

NORRISTOWN, PA — A Montgomery County man is heading to prison for between 13 to 32 years in connection with a gunpoint rape at Norristown Farm Park back in the summer of 2017, according to media reports and court records.

Mason Hall, 22, of West Norriton Township, was sentenced on Wednesday by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas C. Branca, with the judge saying that Hall displayed "depraved actions" when he raped a woman on Aug. 1, 2017, when he was just 19 years old, according to a report in the Mercury newspaper of Pottstown.

The Mercury also reported that Hall must complete three years of probation after parole.

Patch previously reported on Hall's case, which began back in late 2019 with his arrest.

At the time, county prosecutors said the hunt for Hall took two years.

The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said Hall committed a brazen, gunpoint rape at Norristown Farm Park in broad daylight.

The victim was apparently chosen at random.

Court records show that Hall had previously pleaded guilty before Judge Branca to charges of rape, possession of a firearm by a minor, possessing an instrument of crime, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Hall was also named in a separate case recently when he was one of the people charged by Montgomery County prosecutors in a scheme to bring drugs into the county jail.