Man Indicted In Road-Rage Slasher Murder Of Blackwood Man

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — A South Jersey man has been indicted on charges he killed a Blackwood man in a road rage incident during a nor’easter in March.

Everett E. Moore Jr., 54, Clayton, was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and weapons possession, nj.com reports. He is incarcerated in Salem County Jail, and will next appear in court on July 30.

Moore is accused of attacking 32-year-old Joseph Pirri during a road rage incident on March 7 in Deptford. Pirri died eight days later.

Moore was arrested on April 25 by officers of the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, the U.S. Marshal's Service and Monroe Township Police Department at a gas station in Williamstown.

Pirri was severely slashed in the face as he sat in his stopped Nissan Versa southbound on Tanyard Road near the intersection of Mail Avenue in Deptford in heavy snow at about 4:20 p.m. on March 7, according to the prosecutor's office.

Police said Moore drove a Ford F-150 King Ranch pickup truck that illegally passed Pirri and stopped in front of his car. Moore then got out of the truck, which is registered to his wife, and attacked Pirri with a sharp instrument while Pirri was sitting in his car. No one else was in either car at the time of the attack.

Moore left the scene on Tanyard Road where it and Pirri's red Nissan Versa had stopped, proceeding south to the end of the road “in an aggressive manner,” police said. It then turned right onto Barnsboro Road, left onto Woodbury–Glassboro Road. It continued south to Route 47, traveling through Glassboro. The truck then traveled into Clayton Borough.

Pirri was hospitalized, and died on March 15. The cause of death was determined to be an incised wound to the face and the manner of death was determined to be homicide. Before dying, Pirri was able to provide a description of the man who attacked him.

Video from several sources show the Moore pickup behind the Pirri car as the two vehicles traveled south on Tanyard Road, as the pickup passed the Versa and as Moore's truck proceeded from the scene of the attack to his home in Clayton. During the investigation, video was obtained from some 20 locations, police said.

Witness interviews and video evidence establish that Moore drove the pickup truck before and after the incident, police said.

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