Patrick Chewing
03-13-2019, 10:08 AM
https://fox59.com/2019/03/12/ex-priest-defrocked-for-sex-abuse-killed-in-his-nevada-home/
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A defrocked Roman Catholic priest named as one of more than 180 from New Jersey priests facing credible accusations of sexual abuse was fatally shot in a new home in a suburb of Las Vegas, authorities said Tuesday.
Seventy-year-old John Capparelli was found dead Saturday morning in his kitchen in the city of Henderson with a gunshot wound to his neck, said Nicole Charlton of the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
Capparelli died amid “suspicious circumstances,” but police Officer Katrina Rothmeyer declined comment on whether police have a suspect or whether someone broke into the ex-priest’s home.
His name was included last month on the list of 180 priests named by five New Jersey dioceses last month.
Capparelli, who was assigned to churches around New Jersey, was accused of groping and brutalizing teenage boys in the 1970s and 1980s and was defrocked in 1992, according to The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark.
This reeks of a mob hit. Sicko priest commits his crimes some 40 years ago, and a month after his name is published, someone tracks him down all the way in his home in Las Vegas and merks him.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A defrocked Roman Catholic priest named as one of more than 180 from New Jersey priests facing credible accusations of sexual abuse was fatally shot in a new home in a suburb of Las Vegas, authorities said Tuesday.
Seventy-year-old John Capparelli was found dead Saturday morning in his kitchen in the city of Henderson with a gunshot wound to his neck, said Nicole Charlton of the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
Capparelli died amid “suspicious circumstances,” but police Officer Katrina Rothmeyer declined comment on whether police have a suspect or whether someone broke into the ex-priest’s home.
His name was included last month on the list of 180 priests named by five New Jersey dioceses last month.
Capparelli, who was assigned to churches around New Jersey, was accused of groping and brutalizing teenage boys in the 1970s and 1980s and was defrocked in 1992, according to The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark.
This reeks of a mob hit. Sicko priest commits his crimes some 40 years ago, and a month after his name is published, someone tracks him down all the way in his home in Las Vegas and merks him.