A 45 year-old Croydon man who was shot at the Neshaminy State Park Marina recently was arrested and jailed last week on four counts of armed robbery, and 11 related misdemeanor offenses in which police say the suspect used racially incendiary epithets before one of the victims who holds a concealed carry permit shot him in the leg and disarmed him.
District Judge Joseph P. Falcone arraigned Aaron Resnick last Tuesday setting bail at 10 percent of $3 million and confining him to Bucks County Correctional Facility on armed robbery counts and related charges.
Resnick, according to online court records, had his bail reduced at a reduction hearing days later to 10 percent of $1 million. He remains in Buck County authorities’ custody.
On September 26 at 3:37 p.m. Pennsylvania State Troopers out of the Trevose Barracks r
received information from Bucks County Radio about a shooting incident that occurred a short time prior at the Neshaminy State Park Marina, 1300 Fourth Avenue in Croydon.
Troopers, in the affidavit of probable cause, laid out the timeline of the armed robbery-shooting encounter that occurred that Friday afternoon at one of the area’s favorite angler spots.
Let’s Fish!
At approximately 2:45 pm, victims 1 and 2 arrived both black males at the Neshaminy State Park Marina to go fishing. They arrived at this location in victim #1’s vehicle. Upon entering the marina, they drove to the parking lot located in the southwest corner of the marina property, on West Basin Drive. When they got to this location, they parked in the southeast portion of the parking lot, the criminal complaint says.
The two fishermen proceeded to an area known to them to fish, specifically where Neshaminy Creek meets the Delaware River. To get to this location, they walked down a dirt trail and into a wooded area for a short distance. This location is located west of the location in which fisherman #1 parked his vehicle.
When they got to this location, they began to fish and eventually sat down in chairs they brought with them. While sitting down and facing the water, Victim#2 was located to the right of Victim#1. A fishing wagon they brought with them was located a few feet in front of them, Troopers wrote in the probable cause.
Shortly after the fishermen arrived, a blue Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross, bearing an Indiana registration, entered the Neshaminy State Park Marina. This vehicle proceeded to the parking lot located in the southwest corner of the marina property, on West Basin Drive, and parked on the southeast side of the parking spots north of where the anglers parked, authorities said.
The Robbery
Between 3:10 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., the victims told investigators that they first heard, and then observed a man approaching them from a dirt path to the right of where they were fishing. They said that when they first observed this man, he was about twenty feet away from them holding a black rifle and pointed at them.
As Resnick approached, he allegedly said, “Give me your shit, ****er”, “put your faces down, don’t fucking look at me or I will f**king shoot you,” according to the probable cause.
One of the two anglers attempted to stand up, while asking, “are you serious?” at which point Resnick told him to “sit the f**k back down,” court records show.
Resnick asked them what else they had and began looking through the victim’s backpacks at his feet while the barrel of the long gun he held was sometimes within inches of their faces as well, according to police.
Shots Fired
What Resnick did not account or plan for apparently is victim#1 having a valid license to carry a concealed weapon .
After the robbery occurred, the suspect attempted to leave the scene by backpedaling up the dirt path towards the parking lot, keeping the black rifle/long gun pointed towards the victims allegedly saying “if you turn around, I will f**cking shoot you.”
Victim#1 retrieved his firearm from the fishing wagon and approached the suspect, who still had the black rifle/long gun pointed towards him backpedaling, firing multiple rounds from his semi-automatic handgun at Resnick. The last rounds fired at Resnick occurred as he was sitting in the driver side of the Blue Mitsubishi Eclipse he arrived in which shattered the driver side window. After this round was fired, Victim#1 was able to successfully gain control of the suspect’s weapon and was also able to retrieve the items that the suspect had stolen during the encounter. At this time, Resnick backed out of the parking spot and left the Neshaminy Park Marina, according to the criminal complaint.
Police were able to recover a black Legacy 1000 Pellet/BB Air Rifle at the scene of this incident that was used by the suspect during the commission of this crime, authorities said.
The Subsequent State Police Investigation:
The victims were interviewed separately at the incident scene and then later in the evening at PSP-Trevose Barracks. During these interviews, they both described this male as a mid-30’s to early 40’s white male, about 5’11” with an average build, wearing a black t-shirt, khaki or gray shorts, short hair (similar to a buzz cut), and glasses. Both victims stated that throughout this incident they believed that the firearm which the suspect possessed was a real firearm. They feared for their safety and believed their lives were in danger, troopers said in court papers.
Subsequent to this incident, police said, Bucks County 9-1-1 received a telephone call requesting medical attention at 301 Cedar Avenue, only blocks away from the marina. When EMS and police arrived, they found a male in or near the previously noted Blue Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross, suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg.
Resnick was transported by EMS to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in Philadelphia.
State Police Troopers arrived at hospital shortly thereafter and positively identified him. Furthermore, the physical description and the clothing that Resnick was wearing matched the description that the victims provided.
Resnick is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on October 22 2025. He currently has no attorney of record, according to court records.
During the time troopers were gathering evidence for the armed robbery case, Resnick had cases filed against him by Bensalem and Bristol Twp authorities for incidents that occurred on the same date (September 26) on misdemeanor charges and will be summoned by mail at the jail of the charges.