{"id":313006,"date":"2026-10-23T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313006\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:09:10","slug":"berks-man-convicted-of-involuntary-manslaughter-in-accidental-fatal-shooting-of-police-officers-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313006\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks man convicted of involuntary manslaughter in accidental fatal shooting of police officer\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 25-year-old Tilden Township man has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the accidental fatal shooting<\/a> of one of his friends in 2025.<\/p>\n

Daniel Baumert was found guilty Thursday in by a Berks County Court jury, which also convicted him of three counts of recklessly endangering another person. His sentencing is scheduled in November.<\/p>\n

Baumert was on trial in the Dec. 14, 2025, death of Dawson Mohl, 24, of Leesport.<\/p>\n

According to court documents:<\/p>\n

The shooting took place shortly before midnight while five young men, all around the same age, were hanging out and drinking beer and whiskey in the basement of Baumert\u2019s home in the 1300 block of Hex Highway.<\/p>\n

State troopers responded to a 911 call from one of the men who met them at the end of the driveway. The caller took them to the basement, where they found Mohl in a reclining chair with a gunshot wound to the chest.<\/p>\n

One of the troopers attempted lifesaving measures to no avail. Mohl was later pronounced dead by a Berks County deputy coroner.<\/p>\n

Through interviews with the other men, troopers learned that the men were\u00a0checking out Baumert\u2019s collection of M1911 pistols.<\/p>\n

Baumert told troopers that he and Mohl had.45-caliber M1911 pistols, and both had been carrying their respective weapons that night.<\/p>\n

Baumert said he had put his loaded gun away in a safe after they arrived at the home, but Mohl asked to see the firearm.<\/p>\n

Baumert got the pistol out of the safe and pointed the loaded weapon at Mohl with his hand around the grip. The gun discharged as he was handing it to Mohl.<\/p>\n

Investigators said that by holding the weapon the way Baumert did, the grip safety was disengaged, allowing the gun to fire if the trigger is pulled.<\/p>\n

The victim was a son of longtime Berks police officer Ronald Mohl.<\/p>\n

Dawson Mohl was a graduate of the Camp Cadet Troop L, a weeklong military-style summer camp where children from Berks, Lebanon and Schuylkill counties get introduced to law enforcement careers. He worked for years as a junior counselor and lifeguard at the camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old Tilden Township man has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the accidental fatal shooting of one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46,182,139,28,128,130,129,48474,706],"class_list":["post-313006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-tilden-township","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313006","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=313006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}