Gunshot Leads To Standoff With Police, Arrest Of Falls Twp. Man

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — A 29-year-old Levittown man is in custody after a gunshot led to an hours-long standoff with Falls Township Police Sunday night at the Pennsbury Woods apartment complex in Falls Township.

Munajj Rashad Booker, of New Falls Road, surrendered to police and was taken into custody at around 11:30 p.m. He was charged with discharging a gun into an occupied structure and recklessly endangering another person.

Falls Township Police responded to the apartment complex at 9010 New Falls Road at 6:40 p.m. for the report of a gunshot. When police arrived, they found that a bullet had been fired from one apartment into another apartment across the hallway.

A resident from the apartment complex told police that after he heard a shot, he found wood chips on the floor outside of one of the apartment doors. He then observed a gunshot exit hole through the door of the apartment and an entrance hole across the hallway into the wall of another apartment, which was unoccupied at the time.

Police activated the Bucks County South SWAT team, which made contact with Booker, the sole occupant of the apartment where the shot was fired, at 8:49 p.m. Police said he refused to leave the apartment until 11:35 p.m. when he surrendered to police.

Police reported no injuries at the apartment complex, either from the fired shot or during the standoff.

Booker was preliminarily arraigned at 4 a.m. by Judge Jonas and remanded to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $75,000, 10 percent cash bail with the non-monetary condition of having no contact with residents of the apartment that he fired the round into.