{"id":1734,"date":"2025-10-15T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:09:18","slug":"andrew-gaudio-death-2-men-charged-in-deadly-lower-merion-home-invasion-found-guilty-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1734\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Gaudio death: 2 men charged in deadly Lower Merion home invasion found guilty of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOWER MERION, Pa. (WPVI) — The two men charged in a deadly home invasion<\/a> in Montgomery County were convicted of murder on Thursday.<\/p>\n

After several hours of deliberating, the jury found Charles Fulforth and Kelvin Roberts guilty of first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, and related crimes.<\/p>\n

The men were found not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

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Authorities say Fulforth and Roberts broke into a home on Meridith Road in Lower Merion on December 8, 2024, and shot 25-year-old Andrew Gaudio and his mother, Bernadette.<\/p>\n

Bernadette was sleeping in her bed when one of the suspects entered and shot her. She managed to call police, but her injuries have left her paralyzed.<\/p>\n

Andrew Gaudio died while protecting his mother.<\/p>\n

Family members cried and hugged as the verdict was read on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“That fateful night has left my mother fighting every day to gain little bits of her independence back,” said Bernadette’s surviving son, Robert Gaudio.<\/p>\n

“Andrew was a bright light in so many people’s lives. A man who in his final moments was braver than we all could have imagined,” he added.<\/p>\n

RELATED: 8 charged stemming from home invasion that targeted wrong house in Lower Merion Twp.: DA<\/a><\/p>\n

Authorities say the men meant to target a different house.<\/a><\/p>\n

DA Kevin Steele said the two suspects worked at Junkluggers, a junk removal business, in Willow Grove.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 6, 2024, Junkluggers employees did an estimate at a house in Bucks County with a similar address to the victims’ home in Lower Merion Twp., Montgomery County. Following that estimate, information was given to Fulforth, and then Roberts, about “a whole lot of guns” being in the Bucks County house, investigators said.<\/p>\n

“Seemingly what got lost in translation is where the intended house was,” Steele said when the charges were announced. “It was simply the wrong house.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutors called the men’s actions unimaginable evil.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been doing this an awful long time and this is one of the most terrible murderers I’ve ever prosecuted,” said First Assistant DA Edward McCann.<\/p>\n

Kelvin Roberts’ defense attorney also spoke briefly after the verdict.<\/p>\n

“He has indicated to me sorrow for what happened, obviously to Mrs. Gaudio and her son, and I think he’ll express that at the appropriate time when it comes time for sentencing,” said Francis Genovese.<\/p>\n

Court officials say a first-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence, and even more time is possible.<\/p>\n

A sentencing date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n

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