{"id":1713,"date":"2025-10-15T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1713\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:52:16","slug":"jury-finds-gunmen-guilty-in-lower-merion-home-invasion-murder-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1713\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds gunmen guilty in Lower Merion home invasion murder \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men were convicted in the home invasion and shooting that left Andrew Gaudio dead and his mother, Bernadette Gaudio, paralyzed in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, July 24, 2025, a jury found Kelvin Roberts, 42 of Norristown, and Charles Fulforth, 41, of Jenkintown, guilty of first-degree murder, robbery and burglary but not guilty on conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

Bernadette Gaudio stayed in court as defense attorneys for Roberts and Fulforth \u2013 the two men accused of breaking into her Lower Merion Township home on Dec. 8, 2024, in search of guns after going to the wrong address \u2013 tried to convince a Montgomery County judge that the two men were not responsible for her son’s murder.<\/p>\n

Evidence from the crime was found in Roberts’ home, police say, but defense attorneys argued that he wasn’t the one who planned the deadly home invasion.<\/p>\n

Instead, his defense attorneys pointed the finger at his co-defendant, Fulforth and a third man, Jeremy Fuentes, who has also been charged with murder and other offenses related to that same incident.<\/p>\n

All three men worked at Junkluggers in Willow Grove and, officials have said, that company had inspected a home in Bucks County where employees of the junk removal company found firearms.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors claimed Fulforth and Roberts intended to go to that Bucks County home in search of firearms, but put the wrong address in the GPS and ended up at Gaudio’s home instead.<\/p>\n

Frank Genovese, Roberts’ attorney, told the jury that his client was only there for a burglary.<\/p>\n

When the shots were fired, Genovese claimed, Roberts took off. The attorney argued that’s why his client was captured on dash camera footage fleeing the scene as police arrived at the home.<\/p>\n

But, DNA experts said that Roberts’ DNA was on one firearm connected to the crime.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, prosecutors told the court that a jewelry box that belonged to Gaudio was found at Fulforth’s home<\/a> \u2013 as was a firearm that police believe was used in the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n

A vehicle stolen that evening from Gaudio’s home was recovered a block away from Fulforth’s property, as well, prosecutors claimed.<\/p>\n

Also, on Thursday, before deliberations, the jury was shown text messages from Roberts to Fulforth that were sent after police announced that Roberts was wanted in the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey call my wife talking to come to station I told her don\u2019t go tags wasn\u2019t to car,” read one text that was shown to the jury.<\/p>\n

Fulforth replied: \u201cShe\u2019s not going right.”<\/p>\n

To which Roberts texted back: “I\u2019m sick I\u2019m done gotta make it to Jamaica bro.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, prior to deliberations, the jury was shown a video captured from a front door camera that showed Roberts and Fulforth discussing the crime \u2013 including the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n

Family, attorneys react to verdict <\/p>\n

Robert Gaudio, the brother of Andrew Gaudio and son of Bernadette Gaudio, reacted to the verdict Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew was a bright light in so many people\u2019s lives. A man who in his final moments was braver than we all could have imagined,” he said. \u201cMy mother, whose bravery and composure saved her own life and undoubtedly countless others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Ed McMann said he was \u201crelieved\u201d by the jury\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we got justice in this case. I\u2019ve been doing this for a really long time and this is one of the most terrible, awful murders that I\u2019ve ever prosecuted,\u201d he said. \u201cBernadette was shot while she was sleeping in bed in her neck. It was clearly attempted murder to us and then finally, Andrew was essentially executed. After he was shot the first four times and he was laying on the ground. He was shot a fifth time in the head. We proved that in court. So to me it was really apparent that this was clearly specific intent to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genovese, meanwhile, said his client was disappointed with the verdict. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe has indicated to me sorrow for what happened,” Genovese said. “Obviously to Mrs. Gaudio and her son. And I think he\u2019ll express that at the appropriate time when it comes time for sentencing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sentencing for both men will be at a later date. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were convicted in the home invasion and shooting that left Andrew Gaudio dead and his mother,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,200],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}