State police say the man who shot and killed a Derry Township woman was shooting at the wrong house in the midst of a drug dispute.
Police have charged 20-year-old Nathan Quidetto of Latrobe with homicide in connection with the shooting at a home on Pandora Road. Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha reported earlier this week that the victim, 52-year-old Tracey Squib was shot around 4:00 AM on Monday while she was sleeping in her home. She was rushed to Excela Health Latrobe Hospital where she later died. Police say that Quidetto had fired multiple shots at the home in retaliation for a botched drug transaction, but had the wrong location, and the person he was looking for did not even live at that house. One of the bullets he allegedly fired was the one that killed Squib.
Along with the criminal homicide charge, Quidetto faces four felony counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, a felony count of carrying a firearm without a license and three misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment as Squib’s husband and children were in the house as well. He is now in Westmoreland County Prison. A request for bail was denied due to the criminal homicide charge.
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