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Man shot by police during a standoff in Doylestown on Feb. 20, has died

Authorities say a 61-year-old man shot and wounded by police during a standoff near Philadelphia last month has died.

Stock image showing a police tape. A man shot and wounded by police during a standoff near Philadelphia last month has died, authorities said.
Stock image showing a police tape. A man shot and wounded by police during a standoff near Philadelphia last month has died, authorities said.Read moreGetty Images

A man shot and wounded by police during a standoff in Doylestown last month has died, authorities said.

The Bucks County district attorney’s office said Thomas Edward Zeller, 61, was pronounced dead Sunday afternoon at Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health. The Montgomery County coroner’s office was scheduled to perform an autopsy Monday.

Zeller had been hospitalized since Feb. 20, when, police said, he was shot during a standoff.

Prosecutors said earlier that the shooting happened after police responded to a home on a report of an armed man upset and damaging property. Township police officers were called to a townhouse on Carriage Drive in the Olde Colonial Greene development at 8:12 that Thursday night.

At the time, authorities said that the man barricaded himself and police tried to negotiate his surrender, but that he was shot by police during the nearly hour-long standoff. A shelter-in-place advisory was issued about 9 p.m. for residents in the area of Shady Retreat and Limekiln Roads, but was lifted later that evening.

Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub is reviewing the shooting. The name of the officer involved in the shooting has not been released.