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BENSALEM, Pa. (CBS) – Neighbors successful a quiescent Bucks County assemblage are horrified aft a deadly shooting successful their neighborhood. Police accidental the suspected killer, a teenager, utilized societal media to inquire idiosyncratic for assistance with disposing of the victim's body.
Families surviving astatine Top of the Ridge Trailer Park accidental they're stunned aft constabulary accidental they recovered the assemblage of a young miss wrong 1 of their neighbor's mobile homes connected Friday astatine astir 4 p.m.
"Just chaos, really," Katlynn, a Top of the Ridge five-year resident, said. "A batch of cars, a batch of cops. You couldn't truly spot excessively much, thankfully due to the fact that I didn't privation my kids to spot anything."
"I person seen the constabulary successful and retired implicit the 30 thing years, but it's not similar an each time occurrence," Charlie Petree, who has lived astatine Top of the Ridge for 35 years, said.
Bensalem Township Police accidental they checked connected a mobile location aft getting a telephone from a parent whose girl got an Instagram video chat of idiosyncratic saying they had conscionable killed a idiosyncratic and needed assistance disposing of the body.
The video besides showed legs and feet covered successful blood.
"I've lived successful Bensalem on-and-off my full beingness and I deliberation that's the archetypal clip I've ever truly seen the transgression country portion motortruck retired similar that, truthful it's truly rare," Katlynn said.
Police aboriginal identified the fishy arsenic 16-year-old Joshua Cooper.
Once they got wrong the home, constabulary recovered a dormant miss whose property they person not released. She had an evident gunshot wound.
"I heard a gunshot and I cognize astir gunshots," Petree said. "And I travel retired and unfastened the doorway and I spot the lad tally crossed there."
Police accidental erstwhile they arrived to the trailer, Cooper ran retired of the backmost of it. They yet caught up with him successful the country of Newport Mews and Groton Drives. Police past took him into custody.
Police accidental they recovered grounds that steps were taken to cleanable up the transgression scene.
Next doorway neighbour Petree says Cooper and his begetter moved successful astir six months ago.
"I talked to the lad retired present connected the seat a mates of times and helium seemed troubled," Petree said.
Police person not said thing astir a motive
Police person charged Cooper arsenic an big with transgression homicide, possessing instruments of transgression and tampering with oregon fabricating carnal evidence.
He was denied bail and was sent to a juvenile detention center.
Marcella Baietto is simply a bilingual newsman with CBS3 Eyewitness News. She's primitively from Phoenix, Arizona, but considers El Salvador her 2nd location since overmuch of her household inactive lives there.
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