A man was sentenced for shooting a police chief and holding his mother captive for hours during a 2021 standoff in Bucks County.
After firing at Kelly, Petroziello barricaded himself inside the apartment, stopping his mother from leaving and police from entering.
More police officers converged on the scene and established a perimeter. The South Central Bucks County Emergency Response Team eventually helped Petroziello’s mother get out through the window. Before she got out, she managed to toss a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun out of the window while her son was sleeping. When officers entered the apartment they found Petroziello unconscious with a loaded .45-caliber handgun tucked in his waistband and a second loaded magazine in his pants pocket.
A background check revealed Petroziello was committed twice on involuntary mental health commitments, making it illegal for him to possess a firearm under Pennsylvania law. He also had an active protection-from-abuse order against him from his aunt. During Monday’s sentencing, First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Schorn described Petroziello’s history of drug use and violence that spanned nearly a decade. Petroziello entered a no contest plea in September to attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer, attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer, persons not to possess a firearm, false imprisonment, recklessly endangering another person and possession of an instrument of crime.
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