{"id":2406,"date":"2025-10-15T20:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:10:16","slug":"police-shoot-motorcyclist-after-road-rage-incident-in-bensalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2406\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot motorcyclist after road rage incident in Bensalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/police-involved-shooting-investigation-road-rage-incident-bensalem\/17410794\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>A police shooting following a road rage incident in Bensalem, Bucks County, is under investigation Saturday night. Investigators say this all started when a motorcyclist threatened a driver with a gun.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police say this all started around 5:45 p.m. on Woodhaven Road and Route 13 in Bensalem. A driver and a motorcyclist were traveling northbound on Route 13, when police say they got into a dispute.\n<\/p>\n<p>The driver immediately called police when the man riding the motorcycle flashed a handgun and threatened them.\n  <\/p>\n<p>It just so happened that an officer was traveling southbound on Route 13 at the time, and saw that motorcyclist and driver. He turned around, and caught up to them around Park Avenue. As the officer got close to the motorcyclist, that\u2019s when the man slid his motorcycle into the police vehicle, and ran away. The officer chased him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspect had a handgun in his right hand. Slightly turned towards the officer. At one point the officer had to use deadly force. Firing his weapon which he struck the suspect. The suspect fell on the ground,\u201d said William McVey, public safety director for the Bensalem Police Department.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers performed first aid. The motorcyclist was transported to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital where he underwent surgery. The officer was not injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be noted that the officer gave multiple commands for the suspect to show his hands. Prior to having to fire his weapon,\u201d said McVey.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police say no one in the car fired any shots.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. A police shooting following a road rage incident in Bensalem, Bucks County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2153,191,193,192,194,2157],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-6abc","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-police-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}