Norristown, Pennsylvania: A man was killed by a stray bullet while having Thanksgiving dinner with his family, authorities say
Edilberto Miguel Palaez Moctezuma was sitting at the table eating Thanksgiving dinner with his family in a home on Arch Street when a bullet went through a window and hit him, family members said, the DA office said. know. Norristown is about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Officers were dispatched to the home before 9:30 p.m. and found him unresponsive to a gunshot wound to the torso, the office said. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and later pronounced dead, according to authorities.
Montgomery County detectives and Norristown police conducted a joint homicide investigation and found that the shooting was involved in an unrelated dispute, the district attorney’s office said in a statement. newspapers.
“Mr Palaez Moctezuma was murdered while having Thanksgiving dinner at his home, and it is clear that he and his family are not involved in the dispute,” District Attorney Kevin Steele said in a statement. “We will find this shooter and others involved in this murder and seek justice for the murder of an innocent man who was not safe even in his own home. “
According to authorities, the previous incident began when a 19-year-old man, his girlfriend and two others were asked to leave a Thanksgiving dinner party, and alcohol was later discovered missing. . The girlfriend’s cousin arranged to retrieve the alcohol from outside the 19-year-old’s residence on Basin Street, intersecting with the home on Arch Street where Palaez Moctezuma was dining, authorities said.
The cousin parked her car outside the mansion and the 19-year-old swung a gun so she drove away, authorities said in a news release. Multiple shots were fired as she fled, and the 19-year-old then called her cell phone and threatened her, according to authorities.
Investigators found seven bullets and one live bullet in the Basin and Arch Road area, according to the district attorney’s office. Using two surveillance video and bullet hole analysis in the window, investigators determined the fatal shot came from that shooting, authorities said.
According to the DA office, the 19-year-old suspect is still an adult and is considered armed and dangerous. His arrest warrant covers first-degree murder, third-degree murder and other weapons charges, authorities said.
CNN has contacted the DA office and Norristown Police for an arrest warrant.
Additionally, two other males were seen in surveillance video running from the scene of the shooting, authorities said.
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