Christopher Dalrymple, 22, of Lansdale.
A Lansdale man has been sentenced to 10-to-23-months in the Bucks County Correctional Facility for his role in a drug-fueled armed standoff with police in Doylestown Borough last November.
On Tuesday, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Raymond McHugh levied the jail sentence against 22-year-old Christopher Dalrymple, and additionally ordered Dalrymple to pay $9,454.09 in restitution for the damage caused during the standoff. Dalrymple previous plead guilty to discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and three counts of reckless endangerment during a hearing on June 23, and had been awaiting sentencing since that time.
The standoff occurred on Nov. 17, 2019, when personnel from the Central Bucks Regional Police Department were dispatched to Belmont Square in Doylestown Borough at 3:40 p.m. for a report of roughly a dozen shots fired from a neighbor’s home. According to a release from the district attorney’s office, as police arrived to the scene, a man — later identified as Dalrymple — flagged them down from a second floor window, making incoherent statements that he was shooting at intruders in his home and he was acting in self-defense.
Dalrymple told police that he was still armed, at which point police called for backup and the Central Bucks Special Response Team, the release states. As police used an armored personnel carrier to evacuate residents, additional shots were fired inside of the home, police said.
The standoff would end approximately two hours later without any injuries, and Dalrymple was taken into custody without further incident. The release states investigators later determined that Dalrymple was on unspecified drugs at the time of the standoff.
At Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, one of Dalrymple’s former neighbors stated that her house had been struck by five bullets, including two in an area where she had been working from home.
"Our lives were shaken to the core that day," she testified, adding that her children would have normally been walking home from elementary school at the time of the incident.
Also at Tuesday’s hearing, Judge McHugh praised the work of police at the scene, stating their actions kept the neighborhood safe.
"People could have been killed, people could have been hurt," McHugh said. "This was outstanding police work."
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