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[naviga:h3]Man shot, wounded by police dies[/naviga:h3]

DOYLESTOWN — A man shot and wounded by police during a standoff near Philadelphia last month has died, authorities said.

The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Thomas Edward Zeller, 61, was pronounced dead Sunday at Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health. The Montgomery County coroner’s office was scheduled to do an autopsy Monday.

Zeller had been hospitalized since Feb. 20, when police said he was shot during a standoff in Doylestown Township. Prosecutors said earlier that police responded to a home on a report of an armed man upset and damaging property. Authorities said he barricaded himself and police tried to negotiate his surrender, but he was shot by police.

[naviga:h3]Gunfire outside bar wounds 4[/naviga:h3]

POTTSVILLE — One man has been charged with attempted homicide and another with aggravated assault in an exchange of gunfire outside an eastern Pennsylvania bar that sent four people to medical facilities for treatment, authorities said.

A number of people were leaving Woody’s Bar in Pottsville through a rear exit at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday when an argument broke out between 28-year-old Gerald Barrow and a 25-year-old man, state police said. Police allege that each pulled a handgun and opened fire.

The other man was struck several times in the torso.

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