Memorial For Slain Bensalem Teenager Destroyed

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —The memorial for a Bensalem Township teenager killed in a triple shooting on Halloween has been vandalized, police said.

The Bensalem Township Police Department said that at 2:15 a.m. on New Year's Day, an unknown subject destroyed a memorial for Peter Romano, a 14-year-old Snyder Middle School student, one of three teenagers who were shot around Bristol Pike at 7:35 p.m. on Halloween.

Romano was shot in the chest and pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital, police said.

Bensalem Police said the memorial at 2636 Bristol Pike was where Romano’s family had set up a memorial in his honor at the location where he was killed.

"This is despicable," Public Safety Director William McVey said. "This was a shrine that the family put a lot of time and energy to put together and to wield a baseball bat and destroy this?"

While McVey said the incident is a criminal mischief case, it goes a "lot deeper emotionally."

Sean Hughes, 19, of Lower Makefield Township, was named as the person of interest in the Halloween triple shooting by the Bensalem Police Department and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office based on their investigative leads and tips from the public.

Hughes died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after feeling police in Marysville, Ohio, after police there located the vehicle used in the Bensalem triple shooting.

Below video surveillance depicts an unknown subject damaging objects with a baseball bat or club.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Bensalem Township Police Department.