Crime & Safety

Bucks County Police Officer Shot

A Chalfont police officer is reportedly being treated at Abington Memorial Hospital after being shot early this morning near the Lenape Valley Swim Club.

 

A Chalfont police officer reportedly is being treated at Abington Hospital after being shot early this morning near the Lenape Valley Swim Club.

The officer was wounded around around 3:30 a.m. when he was checking into a suspicious vehicle at the swim club on Westview Avenue. 

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Streets near the scene were closed as police searched for the suspects. Emergency alerts said the suspects were in an older model maroon car, believed to be an Oldsmobile.

Police asked SEPTA to suspend train service to the nearby station for a time.

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