TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) — Police seeking someone on a parole violation stumbled upon another man and a woman who were wanted in a double homicide in North Carolina — and that man is dead after a motel standoff in Pennsylvania, authorities said Saturday.
Bensalem public safety director Fred Harran said the couple wanted in the homicide case had picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be wanted in an auto theft case.
“They picked up the wrong hitchhiker,” Harran said. “Criminals picking up criminals … bad luck for all of them.”
When officers found out the man wanted on a parole violation was in the area, they knocked on the door of the Knights Inn motel room at about 3 p.m. Saturday. The other man answered and apparently assumed police were looking for him in the homicides, Harran said.
He opened fire on the officers, who weren’t hit and didn’t return fire because they knew other people were in the room, Harran said.
The woman then surrendered and told police there were two men in the room, one with a gunshot wound. The second man held police at bay for about 2 ½ hours but also surrendered.
The man wanted in the homicide was found dead in the room of a gunshot wound, Harran said. Police have not determined how he died.
“It appears the individual may have killed himself so as not to be taken into custody by police,” Harran said.
Harran said the two were wanted in a double homicide Oct. 30 in North Carolina as well as several robberies, but he didn’t have details or any names or ages of the suspects.
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This story has been corrected to note that the homicide case was in North Carolina rather than Virginia, and to change the dateline and motel location to Trevose rather than Bensalem.
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