A Lehigh Valley man faces felony charges in a shooting during a training exercise last year that left the victim paralyzed from the neck down, police said.

The suspect, 29-year-old Cody J. Saylor, of Allentown, was a role-player during the weapons training session in September at Threat Assessment Tactical Solutions in Stroudsburg, according to police.

He failed to swap out his live Glock 19 9mm handgun for a paintball gun being used in the exercise, and shot 46-year-old Darin J. McMahon in the neck, Stroud Area Regional police said in a news release Tuesday.

Saylor was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on felony counts of aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, in addition to misdemeanor reckless endangerment. He was released on $75,000 unsecured bail and faces a preliminary hearing scheduled Feb. 10 before District Judge Kristina Anzini to determine if there is sufficient evidence to send the case toward trial in Monroe County Court.

No phone number could be found for Saylor, and a call for comment to his attorney was not immediately returned.

Saylor was working with Rockwell Training Group during the “force-on-force” weapons training session, according to police. That company is based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and did not immediately respond Tuesday to a phone message and email seeking comment.

Threat Assessment Tactical Solutions, at 103 Kraemer Ave., deferred comment to an attorney, who did not immediately return a phone message.

Police were called about 2 p.m. Sept. 15, 2019, to a shooting at the business, which offers an indoor "shoot house" where customers can use so-called simunition weapons that fire paint while participating in different scenarios, Stroud Area Regional Police Chief Jennifer Lyon says in the release.

Officers found McMahon, who is from Delaware, lying on the floor, unresponsive and not breathing, police said. Others were trying to revive him with CPR, and he was found to have suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, according to police.

McMahon was flown by medical helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township. Family of the father of two have started a gofundme.com effort to raise money to support his family.

"During the commotion at the scene, officers reported one of the men performing CPR commented that a 'safety check' was not conducted and that a live round was fired," Lyon wrote in the release. "At this time, officers located a 'live' 9mm Glock pistol on the floor of the garage, opposite of where McMahon was found."

Police were directed to the shooter, identified as Saylor, standing across the street from Threat Assessment Tactical Solutions, according to the release.

Investigators learned Saylor had exchanged his simunition gun for his personal Glock 19 before leaving the facility for lunch, the release states.

“After returning from lunch, Saylor never secured his Glock pistol in the designated lockers, and never retrieved his assigned simunition gun before beginning the next scenario,” when the shooting occurred, the release states.

Stroud Area Regional police were assisted at the scene by the Pennsylvania State Police Forensic Services Unit, Suburban EMS, St. Luke’s EMS and Stroudsburg Fire Department personnel.

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