The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office has released additional details from their investigation into a murder-suicide that occurred near Knapp Elementary in Lansdale Tuesday afternoon.
Police were initially dispatched to the 800 block of Concord Place at 12:11 p.m. on Sept. 12 for a report of a shooting. Investigators said a man, later identified as 93-year-old Stanley Brown, called county dispatch stating that he had shot a woman and intended to shoot himself. With Brown on the phone, dispatchers reported hearing a gunshot, according to the district attorney’s office.
As police were arriving at the scene, another shot was heard from inside of the house, investigators said. Police then made entry into the home and found Brown seated in a chair with a handgun and gunshot wounds to his chest.
Brown was airlifted to Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, where he underwent surgery. He died at 11:11 p.m., police said.
The woman, identified as Brown’s wife — 94-year-old Florence Brown — was located in the home unresponsive suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was transported via ambulance to Grand View Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 1:13 p.m., officials said.
A joint investigation by the Lansdale Borough Police Department and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau was subsequently launched, with the initial results indicating Florence Brown suffered from dementia and Stanley Brown was her primary caregiver, police said.
Following the report of the shooting, North Penn School District officials sent an email to families stating that all students at the nearby Knapp Elementary were safe. The statement read:
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.
Autopsies on the bodies will be conducted by the Bucks County Coroner’s Office and the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office, officials said.
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