SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Court documents confirm the suspect in the fatal Lowe's shooting has been charged with murder.
The Scranton Police Department says 36-year-old Christopher Wasnetsky shot and killed his coworker, Jeff Moeller.
According to police, they obtained security footage from the Lowe's on Viewmont Drive in Scranton showing Wasnetsky shooting Moeller on June 14 around 12:30 a.m., once from five feet away, then twice in the head up close.
According to the criminal complaint, the autopsy ruled Moeller's death as homicide from multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
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When authorities arrived on the scene, they searched the store and found the victim lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds amidst shell casings in the rear of the store.
Police say Wasnetsky told officers he went up to Moeller, shot him in the chest while he was working on a machine, before shooting him in the head because he did not want him to suffer.
It was found that Wasnetsky called the police himself after stating, “I’d like to report a shooting at the Dickson City Lowe’s, I was the person that did it,” according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint states that Wasnetsky was then taken back to Scranton Police Headquarters, where he said that the reason he shot Moeller was because he harassed him, and no one would do anything about it.
Wasnetsky has been charged with first and third-degree murder and has been denied bail.
