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Moeller (SUBMITTED)<\/p>\nSCRANTON \u2014 A Benton Twp. man accused of fatally shooting a co-worker at Lowe\u2019s on Viewmont Drive waived his preliminary hearing Friday.<\/p>\n
Christopher Wasnetsky, 36, is charged with first- and third-degree murder after he shot Jeff Moeller while at work the morning of June 14, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
His case will move to arraignment in Lackawanna County Court, though nothing is scheduled yet.<\/p>\n
Wasnetsky told investigators he brought a handgun to work, intending to shoot Moeller, who he claimed had been harassing him. Wasnetsky told officers he had reached out to the business\u2019s management to report the situation, to no avail, police said.<\/p>\n
Wasnetsky appeared in a wheelchair before District Judge George Seig alongside Patrick Casey, one of his attorneys.<\/p>\n
Casey assured Seig that Wasnetsky understood the waiver, explaining that one of his attorneys had met with him on Thursday to provide a full explanation of the proceeding.<\/p>\n
When asked by the judge if he understood, Wasnetsky quietly indicated he did.<\/p>\n
Casey told Seig that in a somewhat \u201cunique\u201d situation, Lackawanna County Judge Margaret Moyle granted a petition to quash subpoenas for five Lowe\u2019s employees set to testify at the preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n
The petition, a formal request to declare proposed testimony legally inappropriate or invalid, was filed on behalf of Julina Beck, William Bilski, Coby Leleaux, Eric Mitchell and Robert Pritchyk.<\/p>\n
Court records indicate attorney Mary Laird, of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago, represents Lowe\u2019s Home Centers LLC.<\/p>\n
The decision does not disqualify the five from testifying at trial.<\/p>\n
Bloody scene<\/p>\n
Wasnetsky called in the shooting, stating, \u201cI\u2019d like to report a shooting at the Dickson City Lowe\u2019s. I was the person that did it,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Scranton police officers responded to Lowe\u2019s on Viewmont Drive at 12:36 a.m., according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Police said they found Moeller on the ground in a pool of blood amid multiple bullet casings. Moeller suffered multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
There was a semiautomatic handgun, a Springfield 9 mm, on the ground near a shopping cart about 30 feet from the victim. The handgun appeared to be unloaded. There was a live round on the ground and a magazine next to the handgun.<\/p>\n
Officers transported Moeller to Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Officers found Wasnetsky at the entrance to the store, arrested him without incident and took him to police headquarters.<\/p>\n
Wasnetsky told police he had approached Moeller while he was working on a machine and shot him in the chest without warning.\u00a0He said Moeller fell to the ground and asked for help.<\/p>\n
Wasnetsky told police he didn\u2019t want Moeller to suffer, so he shot him again, in the head and chest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our associates and customers is our top priority, and we are deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence,\u201d Meagan Bernstein, senior director of external communications for Lowe\u2019s Companies Inc., said in an email following the shooting.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re working closely with law enforcement \u2026 as it\u2019s an active investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moeller family grieves<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe page, set up by Christina Moeller to raise money for Keisha Moeller, Jeff Moeller\u2019s wife, and family, has raised $23,700 toward a $26,000 goal and remains active.<\/p>\n
Moeller (SUBMITTED)<\/p>\n
Christina Moeller, Jeff Moeller\u2019s sister, alleged that her brother had reached out to Lowe\u2019s human resources department because of ongoing concerns about Wasnetsky.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile working the job he was so proud of at Lowe\u2019s in Pennsylvania, he was shot and killed by a coworker\u2014a coworker he had reported multiple times to Human Resources due to ongoing concerns,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTo our knowledge, the individual had been making troubling comments directed at Jeffrey. Despite Jeffrey\u2019s repeated reports, nothing was done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally Published: October 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 A Benton Twp. man accused of fatally shooting a co-worker at Lowe\u2019s on Viewmont Drive waived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-14279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-dunmore","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}