Home Shot Up By 19-Year-Old Levittown Man: Police

FAIRLESS HILLS, PA —A 19-year-old Levittown man faces numerous charges for shooting into a Willow Drive home last August following a fight in a school parking lot earlier that day, police said.

Gavin F. Stanec, 19, of Woodbourne Road in Levittown was charged with aggravated assault to cause serious bodily injury, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, firearms not to be carried without a license, criminal mischief with intentional damage, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Stanec was preliminarily arraigned Friday by Magisterial District Judge Jan Vislosky and sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $950,000 bail with 10 percent and a no victim contact provision.

Falls Township Police Officer Stephen Reeves said that police on Aug. 23, around 11:47 p.m., responded to the area of the Levittown Parkway and Willow Way in Falls Township for a report of a shooting.

The caller was reporting a road rage incident in which he was cut off by a vehicle and the occupants of two white vehicles. One of the white vehicles was described as a sport utility vehicle, and an unknown occupant or occupant had shot at him.

The vehicles then fled into the Willow Wood residential neighborhood in Falls Township. Officers arrived in the area and began checking for the vehicles involved.

Around 11:52 p.m., Sgt. Raymond Fanelli said was at 157 Willow Drive where the resident was reporting her house was shot. At 12:03 a.m., Fanelli reported that a white Dodge Durango carrying one of the shooters was last seen on Willow Drive toward Mill Creek Road.

Police checked the street in front of this residence and located seven 9mm and one .45ACP fired cartridge casings.

The department's criminal investigation squad was called out and conducted a further investigation.

Police learned that two groups of juveniles and/or young adults were engaged in a large fight in the early evening of Aug. 23 at the Penn Valley Elementary School parking lot in Falls Township.

The cause of the earlier fight was reportedly due to accusations over a fake Instagram account used to desecrate someone's memory.

Police were told that one or more persons utilized knives or other cutting instruments during the fight at the school and that four people were injured by sharp objects during the altercation.

Reeves said police were not called about the school incident.

On Aug. 24, a search warrant was executed on 157 Willow Drive where seven projectiles were recovered from numerous areas throughout the house. Police said one penetrated a bedroom, striking a pillow on a bed. The damage to the residence was in excess of $5,000.

During the course of the investigation, it was determined that Kyle Coffey, two juveniles, and five other uninvolved individuals, including an 11-year-old juvenile, were in the residence at the time of the shooting.

On Aug. 31, police executed a search warrant on the white Dodge Durango, suspected to be the same vehicle that left the area shortly after the shots were fired at the Willow Drive home.

Police found a black folding knife in the front center console and found a total of four .45ACP FCCs in various locations inside the passenger compartment.

On Oct. 19, Detective J. Vella spoke with an informant who said that Gavin Nicol —whose real name is Gavin Stanec —admitted that he committed the shooting.

Police said that Stanec got out of the car and fired numerous shots at the residence because the subjects in the house had "stabbed his friends," a reference to the fight at the elementary school parking lot earlier.

Stanec had stated that he used two guns with two different calibers. Stanec claimed that he threw one of the guns away because it was either empty or it jammed and kept the other gun. Stanec claimed he went back for the gun but it was gone, police said.