Four teenagers are in the hospital following a shooting in Trenton, New Jersey Tuesday night.

Two 16-year-old boys, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were on the 600 block of Division Street at 9:45 p.m. when a gunman opened fire. One 16-year-old boy was struck in the arm, the second 16-year-old boy was struck in the thigh, the 16-year-old girl was struck in the leg and back and the 15-year-old boy was struck in the leg and head.

The 15-year-old boy is currently in critical condition. Police haven’t revealed the conditions of the other three teens.

No arrests have been made and police have not released a description of any suspects. They continue to investigate.

A leak at the Delaware County site of the Sunoco pipeline caused thousands of gallons of drilling mud to flow into a creek.

During an incident Monday around 1 p.m. which officials described as an “inadvertent return of drilling mud,” drilling mud from Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline entered the Chester Creek in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania. The mud, which consisted of potable water and non-toxic bentonite clay, entered a tributary of the creek near the site of the drill. Officials say approximately 1500 gallons of mud reached the creek.

Crews later arrived to recover the mud and monitor the area while drilling was halted.

“The drilling mud is used to lubricate the drill underground; on occasion the mud will find a seam in the earth and return to the surface,” a spokesperson for Sunoco told NBC10. “The release of non-toxic mud has been managed according to plans developed as part of our Pennsylvania DEP permitting process, which outlines practices to contain, remove and recycle any drilling mud that escapes during drilling activities.”

The spokesperson also told NBC10 workers saw groundwater flowing back to a drill pad Tuesday and they are working to contain it.

“We have not had any reports of impacts to private wells or public water supplies,” the spokesperson wrote. “There is a considerable amount of water coming out, so we are adding additional containment areas for the water which allows the water to be collected.”

Several neighbors on Martins Lane in Middletown Township, including Annie Hollis, noticed the overflow.  Hollis claims she saw the mud leaking a day before the reported incident.

“It’s been spilling since Sunday,” Hollis said. “It’s now Tuesday.”

Both the State’s Department of Environmental Protection and Bruce Clark, the Middletown Township manager, are investigating the leak.

“They are satisfied with the cleanup efforts that have been done so far by Sunoco,” Clark said.

The Mariner East 2 pipeline will carry 275,000 barrels of liquid natural gas a day from Ohio and western Pennsylvania to a processing facility in Marcus Hook, Delaware County. The 20-inch pipe and a second 16-inch line cuts through 23.6 miles of land in Chester County and 11.4 miles in Delaware County, county planners say.

The pipeline has been the subject of controversy. Residents in West Whiteland and Uwchlan townships claimed the pipeline was contaminating their water leading to a suspension in the pipeline’s construction which later resumed.

West Goshen Township also filed a petition for an injunction against Sunoco Pipeline LP, accusing the company of violating a settlement agreement in the construction of the pipeline. A spokesperson for West Goshen claimed Sunoco began construction to install and operate the pipeline near Greenhill and Boot roads without notifying West Goshen Township officials.

A spokesperson for Sunoco Pipeline told NBC10 the company is in compliance with the settlement agreement but did not have any comment beyond that.

Pennsylvania Senator Chris Quinn, who represents Delaware County, is calling for a halt on the pipeline's construction until more safeguards are put in place.

"What is occurring here is unacceptable," Quinn said. "I am asking the governor and DEP secretary to come down here with Sunoco contractors and tour the incident sites where these breeches have occurred."

Symbols of Superman, Batman and The Flash streamed into a Williamstown Church to honor the young superhero they lost.

The array of characters was a gesture to celebrate the life of four year-old Easton Windhurst.

“It was touching, really touching. He would have loved this,” his aunt, Sasha Wahl said.

For 19 months, Easton endured multiple surgeries, radiation, and took part in two clinical trials during his fight against aplastic ependymoma, or brain tumors. Last week, he lost his arduous battle to cancer.

“If there ever was a fighter, it would be this kid,” Wahl said with a smile.

Last March, doctors gave Easton six months to a year to live. Unfazed, he fought back. He learned how to walk again, ditched his feeding tube, and was able to cut medication down to only two doses per day. He started to play T-ball and began preschool.

“His parents wanted him to be a normal kid.”

Just like the heroes who honored his life Thursday, his family wants to remember him just the same.

“He was a superhero. They want us to celebrate his life. Not mourn, but celebrate the years he was around for, because he touched so many people,” Wahl said.

The family has set up a GoFundMe page in Easton’s name to cover medical expenses.

The suspect in the deadly shooting of a woman who sources say was his ex-girlfriend, fired shots at police during a barricade situation several hours later, according to officials.

Police say the 32-year-old man shot and killed a 25-year-old woman outside her home on the 1200 block of Sanger Street around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday. The man then fled in his car but crashed at Hunting Park and Broad Street before fleeing the scene on foot, police said. Sources told NBC10 the suspect is the ex-boyfriend of the victim.

The suspect was later found inside a home on Stenton Avenue and E. Haines Street in the Germantown section of the city around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

A SWAT Team, K-9 Unit, Philadelphia Police helicopter and dozens of officers and detectives arrived at the home. The man allegedly fired at least one shot at responding officers from the rooftop of the home and one shot from inside the home through an opening. No officers were injured during the incident however. The suspect remains inside the house. Negotiators have been trying to communicate with him throughout the standoff situation. Neighbors were told to stay inside their homes.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

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NJ Boy's Life Celebrated with Superhero Funeral: Symbols of Superman, Batman and The Flash streamed into a Williamstown Church to honor the young superhero they lost. The array of characters was a gesture to celebrate the life of four year-old Easton Windhurjst. “It was touching, really touching. He would have loved this,” his aunt, Sasha Wahl said. For 19 months, Easton endured multiple surgeries, radiation, and took part in two clinical trials during his fight against aplastic ependymoma, or brain tumors. Last week, he lost his arduous battle to cancer. Last March, doctors gave Easton six months to a year to live. Unfazed, he fought back. He learned how to walk again, ditched his feeding tube, and was able to cut medication down to only two doses per day. He started to play T-ball and began preschool. Just like the heroes who honored his life Thursday, his family wants to remember him just the same. Read more.

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There have been several coyote sightings along the Main Line in recent days.

Officials in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania say there are several confirmed sightings of the canid in the township with the most recent coming from the Villanova area.

It's not clear if residents are spotting a single coyote or several animals.

Typically the size of a large dog, coyotes are shy, but opportunistic feeders who will snatch small animals, food in garbage and even pets, officials said.

Pet owners are warned to keep cats and dogs inside especially at night.

Coyotes are known to roam through suburban, urban and rural areas.

Anyone who spots a coyote is urged to call 911.

A woman in Delaware was rescued after she was lifted to safety from the top of a water tower Wednesday morning.

The woman, who officials say was making repairs inside the steel water tower covered in stone located on a sprawling DuPont property in Wilmington, fell 10 to 15 feet off a ladder just after 9:00.

Emergency crews could not manuever the woman down the tight spiral staircase inside the tower and had to lift her off the top with a helicopter.

The rescuers were able to hoist the woman to safety and take her to Christiana hospital.

There was no word on the woman's condition, but she could be seen moving around as SkyForce10 hovered above the rescue.

Theater With A View" in Pottstown, Pennsylvania is taking the theater outdoors. NBC10's Tracy Davidson sits down with artistic and executive directors of the theater.

A trip to Disney World is a magical experience for any child. But for a pair of foster children from Pennsylvania, the visit was life changing.

Courtney and Tom Gilmour became foster parents to Janielle, 12, and Elijah, 10, three years ago. The couple planned a trip to Orlando in April with the two kids to attend the Star Wars Convention and visit Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

Just before they left for Florida, the Gilmours learned that they had finally received an exact adoption date for the two foster children, Courtney told NBC.

They decided to surprise the siblings with the great news during their trip to Disney and enlisted the help of Mickey Mouse himself to help with the reveal.

Gilmour said she got in touch with Disney employees through their Twitter account, and a staffer quickly jumped in to help put the plan in motion.

In a video posted on Courtney Gilmour’s Facebook page, the two kids, clad in Mickey T-shirts, walk in for a meet and greet with Mickey Mouse thinking they are only getting autographs.

After taking some pictures, a Disney staffer tells the kids that Mickey has "something really special to share with you guys," before showing them a message board with the words they had so longed for: “Your Adoption Day, May 24th, 2017.”

The two kids burst into tears of joy as Mickey Mouse comforts them. Courtney and Tom join them, video shows, and the four hug as a family.

"I told you it was going to be magical," Courtney Gilmour tells them.

Gilmour, who lives in Portland, Pennsylvania, only recently posted the video online. The video has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.

"I shared the video because I want to continue to draw attention to foster care and adoption," she told NBC. "Being a former foster child myself and now a foster/adopt mother, it's very important we don't forget there's lots of kids who need help.”

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A deadly synthetic opioid developed as an elephant tranquilizer has killed a Chester County person, authorities said Wednesday, the second week in a row that it has been confirmed as the cause of death in a southeast Pennsylvania overdose.

A Phoenixville resident died July 4 from what initially appeared to be a heroin overdose, but toxicology tests performed during the autopsy revealed that carfentanil was in the man’s blood. The Chester County Coroner has classified the 34-year-old’s death as caused by “acute carfentanil toxicity.”

The drug known by users and dealers as “gray death” has arrived in the region, with two other fatalities confirmed last week in Montgomery County. Carfentanil, which was anticipated by local law enforcement for months, not only adds to fears of increased overdose deaths. It also is causing medics and police to change the way they respond to reports of drug-induced medical emergencies.

The drug began killing people in Ohio during the last few years, and more recently began popping up in western and central Pennsylvania, authorities have said.

The drug is hundreds of times stronger than heroin and fentanyl, a chemically similar synthetic drug that drug dealers occasionally mix with heroin to increase potency. Synthetics have complicated America’s already overwhelming opioid epidemic by enticing users with the allure of supposed stronger effects, but with much deadlier potential.

“As matter of reference it has been determined that it would only take 2‐3 milligrams of fentanyl to induce respiratory depression, arrest and possibly death. When visually compared, 2 to 3 milligrams of fentanyl is about the same as five to seven individual grains of table salt,” the Drug Enforcement Administration has told local law enforcement.

Carfentanil, developed as a tranquilizer for large mammals, is even stronger than fentanyl, which is prescribed to patients with very severe pain levels.

The slightest amount ingested can be fatal and a recent scare for first responders in Bucks County has led a local ambulance squad to purchase additional protective gear.

Two paramedics, an emergency medical technician and a firefighter fell seriously ill after treating a possible overdose in Newtown Township.

All four “began to show signs and symptoms of exposure to an unknown substance, possibly believed to be carfentanil or another substance mixed with heroin.” They were treated at St. Mary Medical Center.

The July 7 scare caused the Newtown Ambulance Squad to look at its safety procedures. The organization decided to purchase new equipment  to protect against accidentally ingesting narcotics while treating patients.

They also revived a debate among the medical community over whether an extremely deadly opioid like carfentanil can be ingested through the skin.

“While there is much disagreement within the medical community that transdermal contact can cause exposure to first responders, there have been a growing number of reports nationwide that lead us to believe that our personnel on this incident experienced such an exposure,” according to a statement from the squad.

In Chester County, the district attorney similarly warned Wednesday that carfentanil poses a significant danger to first responders because of the high risk of accidental ingestion and its potency in almost indistinguishable doses.

“Think of it as a grain of salt,” District Attorney Thomas Hogan said. “That is the amount carfentanil that can kill a drug user looking for a new high or a police officer unlucky enough to accidentally ingest the drug.”

A spokesman for Newtown Ambulance Squad said the new protective gear is a Hazmat-grade arm sleeve made of a material called Tyvek.

The gear has not yet arrived, spokesman Evan Resnikoff said Thursday.

“It’s on back order because this stuff is so popular now,” he said.

When Cosmo DiNardo showed up to an open house at Holy Ghost Preparatory School, his alma mater, last October, school administrators noticed he was acting odd.

The event, designed to attract potential new students, did not include the 2015 graduate as part of the program.

School spokesman William Doherty wouldn't elaborate on what exactly transpired that Sunday other than saying, "the behavior was enough for us to be concerned."

When he was asked to leave, DiNardo became disruptive and police were called.

Doherty said the school filed a police report and called DiNardo's parents, Antonio and Sandra DiNardo, to let them know Cosmo was banned from the prep school's Bucks County campus.

The incident at Holy Ghost Prep coincides with a separate episode at a Montgomery County college that resulted in his banning from that institution.

The new information about DiNardo's past continues to paint a picture of a troubled young man who graduated to the murders of four men he admitted to killing and burying on his family's sprawling rural estate in Solebury Township. Three of the bodies were doused in gasoline and lit on fire inside what was described in court documents as a "pig roaster."

DiNardo is a diagnosed schizophrenic who was involuntarily committed to a mental institution in the past. The circumstances surrounding that committal remain unclear.

Last fall, the 20-year-old was banned from Arcadia University in Glenside, Montgomery County. He spent a semester at the school in the fall 2015 and tried to return the following fall, but school officials said he was not welcome.

A university spokesperson said DiNardo had verbal incidents with members of the university community and made some people uncomfortable. They added that the matter was considered a public safety issue.

DiNardo was informed he would be trespassing if he stepped foot on school grounds, a university spokesperson said. DiNardo and his parents were notified of his banning via a certified letter that was also sent to Cheltenham police.

About half a year after DiNardo was banned, he killed Jimi Taro Patrick, 19; Dean Finocchiaro, 19; Mark Sturgis, 22; and Tom Meo, 21. DiNardo admitted to the killings in a confession last Thursday to avoid the death penalty.

Prosecutors said DiNardo's 20-year-old cousin, Sean Kratz, also participated in the murders. Both have been charged in the case. Kratz's attorney, Abby Leeds, told NBC10 Tuesday that her client is "presumed innocent."

Both remain jailed in Bucks County.

A traffic stop on a busy stretch of a Center City street escalated into a short chase that left a police bicycle crushed and an arrest, police said.

Police stopped a silver Chevrolet on Walnut Street between Broad and 15th streets around 11 a.m. Wednesday. A bicycle officer pulled in front of the car to prevent the driver from pulling away.

A witness said the driver then tried to drive off, running over the police bike. The Chevrolet then struck the back of an SUV. Boxed in by traffic, the suspect and a passenger tried to flee the scene on foot but were stopped by the bicycle officer who took them into custody after a brief struggle, investigators said.

"It was pretty crazy," said Sandy Pope, a witness. "It's not every day that you see the cops chasing down a guy right in front of you."

The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest. The bike officer suffered minor injuries during the ordeal.

An investigation is underway after a body was found in a lake near town houses in Blackwood, New Jersey.

The body was discovered in the water near 92 Knoll Drive around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officials have not yet revealed the identity of the victim or a cause of death. Police continue to investigate.

A former Amish couple who “gifted” their children to a Bucks County man each received up to seven years in prison Wednesday for actions the judge called “unacceptable in any civilized society.” 

In front of 30 members of their former Amish community, Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus were led away once again in shackles and handcuffs after the sentencing before Judge Jeffrey Finley in Doylestown. They have been in prison since June 16, 2016. Their Amish family and friends have shown up throughout the court proceedings the past year. 

Daniel Stoltzfus must serve three and a half years before he is eligible for parole, while his wife must serve at least three years. They will get credit for time served. 

“It would be higher if I had the ability to do so,” Finley told both parents of his sentences for them. “This goes beyond the aggravated sentencing range.” 

Finley said he could not comprehend why the Stoltzfus couple decided that giving their nine daughters to Lee Kaplan, of Feasterville, was a good solution to their money troubles. Daniel Stoltzfus continued to live in Lancaster County during the more than four years his daughters lived with Kaplan, who fathered two children with the couple’s eldest daughter. Savilla Stoltzfus eventually moved in with Kaplan as well. 

Kaplan, who was found guilty of numerous counts of sexual abuse charges last month, will be sentenced in September. He faces up to life in prison. 

Finley said several times during Wednesday's sentencing that he couldn't wrap his mind around “what some in the community might call sex slaves.” 

Savilla Stoltzfus, in an address to the judge, said after losing her great-grandfather many years ago, she had felt “lost” until she and her husband found Kaplan. 

“I hope you may forgive me for putting my children at risk,” she said. 

Daniel Stoltzfus said he regretted “putting his children through what they've gone through this past year.” 

One of those children testified before the sentences were handed down that she hoped the court would have mercy on her “beloved parents.” 

Bucks County Deputy District Attorney said after the hearings that she isn't sure the children understand the gravity of what has happened to them over the last five-plus years.

This weeks Wednesday's Child is Kodie. Kodie and NBC10's Vai Sikahema spent the day at the zoo. Kodie is 14 years old and loves people.