Police Investigating Attempted Murder-Suicide in Lansdale Borough

Keith Heffintrayer | North Penn Now•

UPDATE: Sept. 12, 1:31 p.m. - In a phone interview with North Penn Now, Lansdale Borough Police Chief Mike Trail described the incident as an attempted murder-suicide.

According to Trail, police responded to a report of a shooting at 12:12 p.m. along the 800 block of Concord Place in Lansdale Borough, after a male caller advised county dispatch that he had shot a woman and intended to shoot himself. Arriving police made entry into the home and encountered the man, who was still holding a firearm.

The man then shot himself, Trail said.

Both the man and the woman were transported from the scene via ambulance, with one being airlifted to a trauma center in Philadelphia and the other receiving treatment at an area hospital. Both the man and the woman were alive at the time they were transported, according to Trail.

"There is no threat to the public, and the firearm is accounted for," said Trail.

Corroborating sources tell North Penn Now that both the man and the woman were elderly in age. The names of the man and woman are being withheld by this news organization as that information has not been made public.

The incident is currently under investigation by the Lansdale Borough Police Department and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau. Trail said investigators would provide more information later on Tuesday.

Original story follows...

Police are currently at the scene of a shooting at a home near the intersection of Concord Place and Norway Drive in Lansdale Borough.

First responders were dispatched to the area at 12:12 p.m. for a report of a shooting. North Penn Now has received conflicting reports about the incident, with one claiming a man shot a woman, and another claiming an unidentified person suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dispatch for incident indicated that police have secured the scene.

Montgomery County Department of Public Safety showed multiple units from VMSC Emergency Medical Services being dispatched to the scene, as well as a call for a medevac.

No other details are currently available.

North Penn School District has sent an email to families stating that all students at the nearby Knapp Elementary are safe. The statement reads:

Attention Knapp Families,

North Penn School District security personnel heard of police activity at a residence near Knapp Elementary School on county radio communications at approximately 12:20 p.m. As a precautionary measure, students were sent inside from recess and a lockout was put in place until we had further information.
Once the situation was deemed safe by police, the lockout was ended. The lockout was in place for approximately 10 minutes and the school day resumed as normal.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

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