PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 59-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in Montgomery County after authorities said he shot his wife on their way home from a party because he felt she had disrespected him.
Rockledge Township police were called to a shooting around 10 p.m. Saturday near Huntingdon Pike and Fillmore Street. There, they found 48-year-old Alisett Schubert with multiple gunshot wounds on the ground by the driver’s side of her SUV.
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s office said a SEPTA bus driver saw the shooting and immediately reported it through an emergency system in his bus, with a description of a man he saw get out of the passenger side and open the driver’s side door. The bus driver said he saw a woman slump out of the car onto the ground before the man ran away.
With that description, Philadelphia police caught 59-year-old Jose Luna in Fox Chase, about a mile from the shooting.
The affidavit of probable cause said Luna told police he felt his wife had disrespected him at a party in front of other people, and when she stopped the car on the way home and told him to get out, he grabbed her gun from her purse and shot her. Charging documents said when police confronted Luna, he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, but he was out of bullets.
Luna is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.