Three people were found dead inside a home in southeastern Pennsylvania after a lengthy standoff with a knife-armed suspect, authorities said Monday.
Police in Northampton Township, just outside Philadelphia, responded shortly after 2 p.m. Monday to a single-family home in the Churchville area for a well-being check, an NTPD spokesperson said on social media late Monday night.
Officers were confronted by an “adult male armed with a knife,” police said.
The man, who has not been named, was taken into custody by the South Central Emergency Response Team after a confrontation that lasted several hours, NBC Philadelphia reported.
Video from the scene shows armed officers breaching into the residence, where they ultimately arrested him.
That is when they discovered the bodies of the three victims, police said. The identities of the victims have not been released.
Just before 11 p.m., the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office confirmed a suspect had been arrested in Churchville following a “heavy police presence in the area.”
Neighbors say police arrived at the scene around 2 p.m.
“About eight police cars came back to back to back. No sirens, no lights on, and turned into the neighborhood,” Garrett Hensel, who lives nearby, told ABC Philadelphia.
Several law enforcement vehicles were seen lined up along the street, according to NBC Philadelphia.
Authorities have not released details on the victims’ relationship to the suspect, a possible motive for the triple murder, or how they were killed. But according to the district attorney’s office, the killings appear to be an isolated incident and there is no ongoing danger to the community.
The case is being investigated by the Northampton Township Police Department and the Bucks County Detectives, officials said.
