Public's Help Sought in Fatal Shooting of Teen at Nockamixon

Bucks County law enforcement authorities are looking for the public’s help in identifying and apprehending the person who shot and killed a recent Pennridge High graduate at Nockamixon State Park on Saturday.

Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said Monday his office is asking for help in solving the shooting of Jason Albert Kutt, 18, of Sellersville, who was sitting with his girlfriend at the edge of the lake, waiting for the sun to set, when he was shot once in the back of the head around 5:15 p.m. Kutt died Monday morning.

The shooting happened near the Old Ridge Road access to the state park, across from the marina at Lake Nockamixon. Kutt's girlfriend, whose name was withheld due to minor status and privacy concerns, told authorities she saw a man in an orange vest, which she described as hunting clothing, standing behind a yellow gate at Old Ridge Road, looking in their direction. The investigation found that the distance from that gate to where Kutt and his girlfriend were sitting was 550 feet away, Weintraub said.

Pennsylvania State Game Wardens and State Park Rangers patrolling the park quickly responded to the area and found Kutt with a gunshot injury. Police from Upper Bucks County, including a K9 and a State Police helicopter, searched the area and did not locate any persons of interest.

"We want to get to the bottom of this," Weintraub said at a press conference Monday. "We don't have any suspects. We don't even know if a crime has been committed yet. But we need to understand how Jason Kutt died and we need your help to do that."

Weintraub said hunting was allowed at the state park the day Kutt was shot. "We need to understand what the shooter's intent was, whether there was actually any criminal mental state,” he said. "Things can happen on purpose, they can happen knowingly, they can happen recklessly, they can happen through gross negligence or purely by accident. "