An attempted murder charge, and 12 additional offenses, lodged against a Warrington Township man suspected of a Lower Bucks road-rage shooting that left a woman injured were waived to Bucks County Common Pleas Court at a preliminary hearing Friday.
Christopher Corbi, 41, was arrested after a multi-agency search, including municipal and state authorities, following the shooting.
He is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felony aggravated assault with extreme indifference, four misdemeanor counts of propelling missiles into occupied vehicles, and misdemeanor charges of possessing an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence, assault, criminal mischief, and possession of a weapon, per court records.
Middletown Township police were dispatched around 6:19 p.m. to the 200 block of Swift Road in the Langhorne section of the township for a report of a shooting. The caller told dispatchers someone had shot at her car and she believed she had been struck in the wrist, authorities said.
Officers arrived to find the woman with a bleeding wrist, police said.
The woman’s vehicle had multiple bullet holes, including one through the windshield, police said.
The woman recounted to police that the initial shooting happened while she was traveling east on the Newtown Bypass between Summit Trace and Woodbourne Road. She, along with other drivers, moved to pass a car when she saw a flash come from the blue Honda Civic they were passing.
Moments later, she noticed what appeared to be a bullet hole in her passenger-side window, police said.
The woman slowed down to allow the Honda to pass her, aiming to get its license plate number and call 9-1-1, police said.
While on the phone with 9-1-1, the woman followed the Honda as it turned into the Swan Pointe development off Woodbourne Road, police said.
The woman told police the driver of the Honda abruptly slammed on the brakes, exited the car, and walked toward her vehicle while firing additional shots before driving off.
Dispatchers relayed the suspect vehicle’s information, and at 6:47 p.m., police from multiple agencies, including Newtown Borough, Newtown Township, Lower Makefield Township, and state police, located the Honda in the parking lot of the Village Market on Washington Crossing Road in Lower Makefield Township, according to authorities.
Corbi, the driver, was taken into custody without incident, police said.
Corbi later admitted to investigators that he fired twice into the woman’s car on the Newtown Bypass. He also admitted to firing a single shot in Swan Pointe after he was followed, police said.
The defendant directed officers to a trash can outside the PetSmart in Newtown Township, where he said he dumped the gun, a revolver, in a grocery store bag.
Officers responded and recovered the weapon.
Corbi also told police he dumped a box of ammunition into a trash can outside the Newtown Farmer’s Market, police said.
Corbi is free on 10% of $1 million bail ($100,000), and will be arraigned in county court April 24. He is represented by Bensalem attorney Paul Jared Mallis.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
