HATFIELD TOWNSHIP SHOOTING

Man injured after shooting himself in leg outside Wawa Wednesday afternoon, police say

There was no threat to the public.

Managing Editor

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

There was no threat to the public.

A 55-year-old man was taken to Grand View Hospital with non life-threatening injuries after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at in the parking lot of Wawa in Colmar, Hatfield Township Wednesday afternoon.

Hatfield Police and VMSC Emergency Medical Services were dispatched to the Wawa at Bethlehem Pike and Walnut Street around 3:41 p.m. for the incident.

No one else was injured and there was no threat to the public. The scene was cleared by 4 p.m.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.