{"id":1978,"date":"2025-10-15T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:21:15","slug":"shooting-reported-at-route-1-hotel-in-bensalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Reported At Route 1 Hotel In Bensalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Philadelphia man is in custody for an alleged shooting at a township hotel late last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police responded at 9:11 p.m. on Thursday to the report of an armed suspect and a shooting at the Knights Inn Motel on Route 1. <\/p>\n<p>Police spoke with the caller, who stated that something had struck and shattered the rear side window of his vehicle while he was driving through the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness said that he saw a black man fire two shots from a gun while standing in the parking lot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police discovered that the shooter returned to Room 185 at the motel, which was registered under the name of Steven Kilcrest, 38, of Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>While police were gathering information, Kilcrest exited the hotel room unarmed and was detained by police. <\/p>\n<p>Police recovered a .40 Cal. Hi-Point Semi-Automatic handgun from the room and two spent shell casings from the parking lot. <\/p>\n<p>The handgun had a live round in the chamber and an additional five rounds in the magazine, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A search revealed that Kilcrest was prohibited by law from possessing a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>Kilcrest was charged with Aggravated Assault, Persons Not to Possess a Firearm, Carrying a Firearm Without a License, Reckless Endangerment, and Criminal Mischief. <\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned by District Justice Brian Marriott and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"1586961-1759754659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gun.jpg\" data- \/> <\/p>\n<p>(Bensalem Township Police Department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Philadelphia man is in custody for an alleged shooting at a township hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-1978","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\/1978","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=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}