GREGORY ERDMANN - 3 yo - Fall River MA/ Philadelphia PA

SWAT team members in Pennsylvania yesterday killed a career criminal
suspected of killing a Fall River toddler and Yarmouth man execution
style and critically wounding the boy’s mother and two others — while in
Fall River, neighbors mourned the death of the youngest victim, who
would have turned 3 this month, and prayed for his mother’s recovery.


“To take the life of a child so full of energy and life is
inconceivable to me,” said Ronald Johnson, 45, a neighbor of the family
in Fall River. “His mother’s going to be devastated, because he was her
life.”“She was very protective of Gregory,” said another neighbor, Jessica Espinola, 26. “He hadn’t even started to talk yet.”
Kathryn Erdmann and her son Gregory of Fall River, and her boyfriend
Joseph Shay of Yarmouth were at the suburban Philadelphia vacation home
of Shay’s aunt and uncle late Saturday, when Mark Richard Geisenheyner
allegedly broke in, bent on revenge over an insurance fraud scheme,
authorities said.


“Guess you never thought you’d see me again,” Geisenheyner, 51,
allegedly told Paul Shay, according to the accounts of two survivors. He
then shot all five people in the head, killing little Gregory and
Joseph Shay, prosecutors said.
Geisenheyner and Paul Shay knew each other from a 2006 insurance
fraud scheme that involved Shay’s home, said Montgomery County District
Attorney Risa Ferman. She could not immediately provide details.
On Sunday, Geisenheyner went to the home of a friend he had known in
prison and talked for several hours about the slayings, offering details
not known to the public, prosecutors said.
When he fell asleep, the friend and a companion sneaked out, calling
police just before 5 a.m. Monday. A SWAT team surrounded the house in
Trainer, making contact with the armed suspect by cell phone throughout
the morning.
“He was determined not to surrender, not to end up in a prison
again,” Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green said. “He
obviously indicated that he intended to seek revenge against the one
victim. There’s no explanation that I’m aware of as to why he would have
shot at and killed multiple victims, including a 2-year-old child.”
Yesterday, Erdmann’s neighbors described her as a devoted mother who
was studying to become a pharmaceutical technician. She recently began
dating Joseph Shay, neighbors said.
Herald wire services contributed to this report.
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