3 found dead inside Bucks County Pa. home after standoff

Three people were found dead in a southeastern Pennsylvania home after a lengthy standoff with a knife-wielding suspect, authorities said Monday.

Police in Northampton Township, just outside Philadelphia, went to a single-family home in the Churchville area shortly after 2 p.m. Monday for a welfare check, an NTPD spokesperson said on social media Monday evening.

Officers were confronted by an “adult male armed with a knife,” police said.

The man, who was not named, was arrested by the South Central Emergency Response Team after a standoff that lasted several hours, NBC Philadelphia reported.

Video from the scene shows armed officers bursting into the residence, where they eventually arrested him.

That’s when they discovered the bodies of the three victims, police said. The identities of the victims have not been released.

Shortly before 11 p.m., the Bucks County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that a suspect was arrested in Churchville following a “heavy police presence in the area.”

Neighbors say police arrived on scene around 2 p.m.

“About eight police cars came in back to back. No sirens, no lights on and they headed 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 about the victims’ relationship with the suspect, a possible motive for the triple murder, or how they were killed. But according to the prosecutor’s office, these killings appear to be an isolated incident and there is no ongoing danger to the community.

The case remains under investigation by the Northampton Township Police Department and Bucks County detectives, officials said.