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A New York man has been arrested for homicide after driving to a sheriff’s workplace car parking zone to allegedly eliminate his useless father’s physique.
Richard Fluegel Sr, 60, was reported lacking by his household on December 8 in Irondequoit, about 300 miles northwest of New York Metropolis. He had not returned dwelling as anticipated and didn’t present up for a flight the subsequent morning.
When his automotive was later present in a car parking zone about an hour away officers launched a search to search out him.
On December 9 round 11:30 pm, the person’s son, Richard Fluegel Jr, 30, allegedly referred to as 911 from the car parking zone of the sheriff’s workplace and instructed the operator he “needed to show in a deceased physique.” Deputies and investigators instantly responded to the scene. It was not clear from the decision that the case concerned a homicide.
Police say they thought the caller could have been reporting a medical emergency or a pure occasion. Investigators labored the scene for hours, acquiring a search warrant for his automotive and in the end discovered Fluegel Sr’s physique inside with gunshot wounds.
It’s not clear precisely when the son allegedly killed his father. The 2 have been in a distinct city when the taking pictures occurred, police stated.
The next day, Fluegel Jr, of Rochester, was arrested and charged with felony homicide within the second diploma, felony prison use of a firearm within the first diploma and felony tampering with bodily proof.
He’s at present being held within the Livingston County Jail with out bail. He has two prior felony convictions.
A county public defender represented the person throughout his arraignment. The Unbiased has emailed the workplace for remark. His subsequent court docket look is about for December 16.
Throughout a information convention on Tuesday, Livingston County Sheriff Thomas J Dougherty referred to as the scenario “very irregular,” including he’d by no means heard of one thing like that occuring in his regulation enforcement profession. He stated he expects extra costs to be introduced ahead.
“How did we find yourself on this place with a very unlucky, tragic story?” Dougherty stated. “You understand, it’s a kind of issues that I can think about doesn’t make quite a lot of sense to the household, it doesn’t make quite a lot of sense to us, and in order that’s our job to find out what occurred.”
He didn’t reveal further particulars and stated there was by no means a wider hazard to the neighborhood. “This was an remoted incident,” he stated.
