Police: Father of woman’s children breaks into Lansdale apartment and fatally shoots her new boyfriend
Investigators say Wesley Wayne Smith was visiting his girlfriend, who lives at the apartment complex, when Christopher Moore, Jr., the father of her children, entered the building through a bathroom window. entered the bedroom and started shooting.
LANSDALE, Pa. – Montgomery County prosecutors have charged a man who they say broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home and fatally shot her boyfriend during a shootout.
Christopher Moore Jr., 21, was charged Tuesday with multiple felonies, including first-, second- and third-degree murder, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said.
Investigators believe Moore climbed through the bathroom window of his ex-girlfriend’s home in the 400 block of Walnut Street in Lansdale around 11 p.m. Once inside, investigators say Moore and 21-year-old Wesley Wayne Smith began shooting each other.
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Responding officers from the Lansdale Police Department found both Moore and Smith suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Smith was pronounced dead at the scene and Moore was transported to Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, where he is expected to survive.
Detectives later learned that Moore and Smith had valid permits to carry a firearm.
