{"id":181612,"date":"2026-05-01T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:31:18","slug":"police-said-yardley-male-fired-gun-inside-bensalem-chicken-restaurant-delaware-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181612\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Said Yardley Male Fired Gun Inside Bensalem Chicken Restaurant \u2013 Delaware Valley News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>by Alex Lloyd Gross<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police allege that Landon McMahon of Yardley, PA, 18, was inside Asad\u2019s Hot Chicken on the 2500 block of Knights Rd on April 27, 2026.  During his visit, he went into the mens room and pulled out a pistol. During that time, the gun discharged and a shot went into the wall.  Police found bullet fragments on the ground. No one was struck by gun fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K.C.-Web-Banner-1024x265.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56065 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding this are unknown. The gun could have been mishandled or he could have deliberately pulled the trigger, police did not comment on that. When the investigation started, they obtained security camera footage and noticed McMahon left in an Infinity.   He was tracked using License Plate Reader technology. That is how they got his identity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot_6-4-2026_1051_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56048 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>They have a warrant out for him. To compound the matter,  he was spotted by Middletown Police but sped away when officers tried to stop him.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alex-Gross-Advertisement-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46953 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Police said his warrant is for Recklessly Endangering Another Person, Firearms Not to Be Carried Without a License, and other related offenses. He will also answer to charges from  Middletown as well. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 1, 2026 by Alex Lloyd Gross Bensalem Police allege that Landon McMahon of Yardley, PA, 18, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-181612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}