Sunday, February 24, 2013
One man is in custody and another person is being sought in connection with a shots fired incident that police say may have been an attempted home invasion.
Authorities are investigating what they believe is an attempted home invasion in the 700 block of Astor Street early Sunday morning. Patch readers reported heavy police activity in the area sometime before 6 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24. The incident was originally categorized as a shots-fired call, according to 6ABC Action News. Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono later told The Times Herald he believed the incident was an attempted home invasion. At least one man is in custody and another person is still being sought by authorities in connection with the incident. Police were reportedly searching early yesterday for a possible victim, though Chief Bono told the Herald that no victims of the incident were found. "No one was shot, as far as we…
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Residents say they heard shots ring out Tuesday afternoon in the area of West Oak and George streets.
Several residents in the West End reported hearing shots fired shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan 15, in the area of West Oak and George streets. According to a report from the Norristown Police Department, a caller who reported hearing the shots told police that he heard them right outside his home. He also reported hearing an unidentified voice say several times, "I'm going to kill you." Officers reportedly spoke with several people at the scene and determined the shots most likely originated in the 600 block of West Oak Street. Police searched the area, but could find no evidence – blood, shell casings or damaged property –of the incident. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Norristown Police …
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600 W Oak St, Norristown, PA
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Police say the three separate incidents of shots fired on Saturday night in Norristown were actually all attributable to one incident at Violet and Moore streets.
Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono confirmed that three separate shots fired incidents reported by Norristown Patch on Saturday evening, Jan. 5, were actually only one incident in the 400 block of Moore Street. Norristown Patch received the first reports of a shots fired incident shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Saturday from several residents who identified East Oak and Arch as the possible location. While on the way to the scene, Patch was alerted to what was referred to as a second shooting incident in the area of Violet and Moore streets sometime around 5:30 p.m. On the scene at Violet and Moore, police and residents alerted Patch to another investigation underway at Oak and Smith streets, which was reportedly called in within minutes of …
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Violet St & E Moore St, Norristown, PA
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Police are currently investigating at least three separate shots fired incidents in Norristown on Saturday night. A possible fourth incident has yet to be confirmed.
UPDATE: [1/6/13; 9 a.m.] According to Norristown Police Detective Corporal Adam Schurr, authorities have recovered evidence from one of several shots fired incidents within a few hours of one another in Norristown on Saturday, Jan. 5. Police believe six shots were fired in the incident at Oak and Smith Streets – two into a vehicle at the scene which authorities had been seized and were awaiting a search warrant on early Sunday morning. According to Cpl. Schurr, officers also recovered casings from the scene. That incident followed within minutes of a shots fired report in the 400 block of Moore Street at approximately 5:30 p.m. where police also recovered fragments from several bullets as well as sneakers and reportedly a jacket from …
Friday, December 21, 2012
Two separate incidents of shots fired were reported in Norristown today and at least one victim is currently in unstable condition at an area hospital.
Details are slim, but at least two reports of shots fired in two different neighborhoods in Norristown have been publicized and at least one victim is reportedly in a hospital being treated for wounds. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, The Times Herald reported via Twitter that shots were heard in the 200 block of East Elm Street and police were on the look out for two suspects described as black males wearing Army fatigues. Thirty minutes later, the Herald reported authorities were searching for the suspects, but named East Oak Street as the location of the shooting. At approximately 4:51 p.m., the Herald reported on Twitter another shooting, this time in the area of West Airy Street. Scanner reports indicate that the shooting…
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200 E Elm St, Norristown, PA
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W Airy St & Hamilton St, Norristown, PA
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Several shots were reportedly fired in the 200 block of Spruce Street.
According to The Times Herald, less than 18 hours before a similar incident that happened less than four blocks away, police are once again investigating a report of shots fired on the East End – this time in the 200 block of East Spruce Street. Police reportedly responded to the area at approximately 6:15 p.m. after a caller reported hearing six shots fired. Officer recovered six shell casings and a cell phone from the scene, and reportedly found a bullet hole through an apartment window and blood on the front steps of one building in the area. According to the Herald, an 11-year-old witness told police he thought he saw at least one man running from the scene holding his leg as though he'd been shot. Police reportedly notified area …
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200 E Spruce St, Norristown, PA
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Authorities recovered 30 shell casings from three different weapons at the scene.
Police are investigating a gun battle in the area of Arch and East Oak streets that erupted around midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 19, terrifying neighbors. According to Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono, officers responded to the scene at 12:10 a.m. on Wednesday for a report of shots fired in the area. There, they recovered 30 spent shell casings from at least three different types of weapons. "[We recovered] .40 caliber shell casings, 9mm shell casings and a .380," said Chief Bono. "All semi-automatic handguns." No one was reported injured in the incident, but at least one home in the 700 block of Arch Street was damaged when a bullet entered a front window and struck a wall inside the home. Police reportedly have very little information…
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Arch St & E Oak St, Norristown, PA
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Residents reported hearing five shots in the 200 block of Appletree Alley in Norristown. The next morning, workers at nearby Saint Patrick's Church found a bullet hole in an office window.
Residents in the area of the 200 block of Appletree Alley (between East Oak and East Chestnut streets) reported hearing five shots ring out sometime around 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2. Norristown Police responded to the scene to interview neighbors and searched the area for shell casings and evidence of the shots reportedly heard. No arrests were made. On Monday morning, employees of Saint Patrick's Church, whose office is located at 703 Green Street, arrived at work to find a bullet hole through a north-facing window that also passed through an interior wall and struck another wall. Police were notified and an officer came to the scene to recover the slug and map the trajectory of the bullet which appeared to come from the area of East …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Parents were informed of the incident by officials Whitehall Elementary School who reported that students were alarmed, but are safe at school.
Parents are concerned after a shooting incident near a school bus stop in Norristown this morning scared students who were getting on the bus for school at the time. Official incident reports are currently unavailable, but according to Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono, his officers responded to a call of shots fired sometime around 8:30 a.m. this morning on the corner of West Airy and Barbadoes streets. Police say two black males jumped from a dark green or possibly black Lincoln Navigator and fired three or four shots through the front windows of an abandoned first-floor apartment at 151 West Airy Street. The suspects then fled in their vehicle which a witness reported had a broken driver's side mirror. The apartment was not occupied …
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Barbadoes St & W Airy St, Norristown, PA
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Police recovered 13 shells fired from two different weapons at the scene.
According to a report from the Norristown Police Department, a homeowner on the 600 block of Kohn Street reported that shots were fired at her house at approximately 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23. The victim's front window, television and wall all sustained damage from gunshots. Police recovered a total of 13 shells from the scene, originating from two different weapons. Neighbors report being awoken by the sounds of the gunfire, but no one reported seeing the shooters. The victim reportedly told police she has no known enemies and does not know why anyone would shoot at her house. Anyone with information about the incident should contact the Norristown Police at 610-270-0977.
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600 Kohn St, Norristown, PA
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