On July 6, 2024, at about 5:48 p.m., Bensalem Police found 40-year-old Jose Miguel Tenorio-Ruiz near the rear parking lot of Bucks Meadows Apartments, 3131 Knights Road, suffering a gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Witnesses said Tenorio-Ruiz had a minor physical altercation with 31-year-old Abel Mendoza-Ramirez, a resident of the complex. According to those accounts, Mendoza-Ramirez retrieved a semi-automatic handgun from his vehicle, fired two rounds into the ground near Tenorio-Ruiz, and then shot Tenorio-Ruiz in the torso when Tenorio-Ruiz tried to disarm him. Mendoza-Ramirez fled in a Ford van but was stopped by a Newtown Township officer around 6:40 p.m. at 600 Newtown-Yardley Road and taken into custody.

Mendoza-Ramirez was charged with Criminal Homicide, First-Degree Murder, Third-Degree Murder, and Possession of an Instrument of Crime and was remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility without bail. Are there witnesses or neighbors who saw the events at the apartment complex or the van leaving the scene?