Northampton police shot and killed 40-year-old man, according to Bucks County DA

The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office is investigating after Northampton Township police shot and killed a man.

The shooting happened just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday on the 500 block of Elm Avenue in Churchville, the district attorney’s office said. At that time, a Northampton police officer shot Mark Chambers, 40, as Chambers was approaching the officer with a knife in his hand, according to Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck.

Medics transported Chambers to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Langhorne, where he was later pronounced dead. An autopsy ruled that his cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds, and that the manner of his death was homicide.

Buck said the initial 911 call that brought officers to Chambers’ home reported that he was suicidal and had threatened to kill himself with that knife.

In a statement Monday, the district attorney’s office did not reveal what specifically led to the shooting but reported that a Northampton Township police officer was being treated for injuries “suffered in the incident.”

The district attorney’s office did not release the name of the officer who shot Chambers, citing the investigation into the shooting.

“This office will make a determination on this shooting once the investigation is complete,” the office said.