DA says police shooting in Bristol Township justified

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Saturday, March 24, 2018
DA says police shooting in Bristol Township justified
DA says police shooting in Bristol Township justified. Gray Hall reports during Action News at 6 a.m. on March 24, 2018.

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP (WPVI) -- The District Attorney in Bucks County has ruled the two officers, who shot and killed a man earlier this month, were justified.

On March 2nd, the Bristol Township officers responded to the report of a vehicle with New York license plate idled for a long time on the side of Edgeley Road, just south of Runway Road.

They say a driver in his 20s confronted police with a hatchet.

Police fired multiple shots at him.

No officers were hurt.

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