BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A 30-year-old township woman is in custody after firing a shot at someone during an altercation last week at an apartment complex.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police responded at 9:43 p.m. Wednesday to The Commons Apartment Complex at 1900 Park Avenue for multiple reports of an armed person and shots fired. <\/p>\n
Police said that multiple subjects from two separate apartments were involved in a physical altercation that stemmed from one of the two people setting off fireworks.<\/p>\n
An investigation by police revealed that during the altercation, 30-year-old Tiara Blackston, who lives in the apartment complex, produced a firearm from her pocket and fired one round at the other person involved in the altercation. <\/p>\n
Bensalem Police said the victim was not struck by the bullet. <\/p>\n
Police were able to recover the firearm, a 9mm Taurus handgun, and Blackston was taken into custody. <\/p>\n
Blackston was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment of another person, possessing an instrument of crime, and harassment. <\/p>\n
Blackston was arraigned by Magisterial District Justice Lisa J. Gaier with bail set at $250,000 with 10 percent. Blackston was remanded to Bucks County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A 30-year-old township woman is in custody after firing a shot at someone during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-3301","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\/3301","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=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}