Pair Hurt In Shooting Incident At Berks County Bar, Say State Police

First responders were called to a bar in Hamburg early Sunday morning after two people were struck by gunfire, according to state police.

Pappy T's Pub and Lounge in Hamburg; Pennsylvania State Police
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Mac Bullock

11/13/2023 10:21 a.m.

It happened at Pappy T's Pub and Lounge, 50 Industrial Drive, around 1 a.m. on Nov. 12, said troopers.

Thirty-seven-year-old Thomas Fronina took out a .380-caliber handgun to show another bar patron and "discharged a single round towards the floor," police said.

A 43-year-old woman was hit in the leg and taken to Reading Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while a 45-year-old man was hit in the ankle with a bullet fragment, authorities said.

Fronina, of Leesport, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, and discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, according to court records.

He is due in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 20.

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