Deadly Main Line Home Invasion Result Of Wrong Address: DA

WYNNEWOOD, PA — The deadly Dec. 8 Main Line home invasion was a result of two would-be gun thieves going to the wrong house, Montgomery County authorities said.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Kelvin Roberts, 42, of Philadelphia was arrested at his workplace in Upper Moreland Township Tuesday morning in connection with the incident that led to the death of Andrew Gaudio, 25, and his mother, 61-year-old Bernadette Gaudio, being critically injured. Charles Fulforth, 41, of Jenkintown, is already in custody in connection with the incident. He is charged with first-and second-degree murder, robbery, burglary, and related crimes.

According to Steele, Roberts and Fulforth were hoping to steal firearms from a property in Bucks County. However, they got the address wrong, leading them to the Gaudio's shared home.

The DA said the pair went to 9 Meredith Road in Wynnewood in hopes of stealing guns, but did not find any weapons and instead took a jewelry box after shooting Bernadette Guadio while she lay in bed. They then killed Andrew Gaudio as he laid face down on the floor of his mother's bedroom, the DA said.

Authorities said the two were employed at Junkluggers in Willow Grove. Junkluggers provided an estimate for junk removal at a Bucks County home, and Roberts and Fulforth learned that the home contained numerous firearms.

Somewhere in the pipeline of information relayed to Roberts and Fulforth, the target address got mixed up with the Wynnewood address.

Steele said Roberts was planning to flee to Jamaica and had a 9mm handgun on him when he was taken into custody. He is charged with first- and second-degree murder, burglary, robbery, and related crimes.

Authorities believe the two have been involved in firearm trafficking in the region.

Steele said anyone who has used Junkluggers recently and has had home burglaries or items stolen from them to contact authorities. Junkluggers's owner has been cooperative during the investigation, according to Steele.

Authorities identified Roberts as a suspect after conducting vehicle record searches and visiting a home on Sansom Street in Philadelphia. When investigators searched the Meredith Road home shared by the Gaudios, they found 11 spent shell casings, among other things.

Three of those fired cartridge casings were from a 9mm gun and eight were from a .25 caliber firearm. The two different shell casings led authorities to believe at least two people were involved in the home invasion.

When Fulforth was taken into custody last week, authorities said he was carrying bags that contained, among other things, various tools, gun parts, .25 caliber ammunition, and 9mm ammunition. A search of Fulforth’s apartment found a loaded 9 mm ghost gun, a black balaclava mask, a 3D printer, and other materials used to make ghost guns and ammunition.

A firearms and ballistics expert matched the recovered ghost gun to projectiles recovered from Andrew Gaudio’s body at the autopsy.

In addition to the jewelry box, a 2004 Jeep Cherokee was stolen in the incident.

Dashboard camera footage from Lower Merion Police captured Roberts driving his girlfriend's Hyundai early Sunday morning, while the driver of the stolen Jeep was unaccounted for. Authorities later tracked the Hyundai to Sansom Street in Philadelphia.

While reviewing surveillance footage from that area after the home invasion, authorities saw who they said was Roberts pull up in a white vehicle and then a Jeep Cherokee pull up shortly thereafter. The video also showed an unidentified man get out of the Jeep. The two men were seen walking toward Roberts' girlfriend's home on that block of Sansom Street.

The Jeep was found that same block, authorities said.

According to authorities, after getting inside the home, Roberts and Fulforth went upstairs, shot Bernadette Gaudio, then fatally shot Andrew Gaudio when he came to his mother's aid. It's unclear which suspect shot who, authorities said.

Bernadette was able to call 911 using Siri on her iPhone, which authorities called incredibly brave, as Roberts and Fulforth were still in her home when she made the call. Authorities said she is paralyzed, but has regained some movement since the shooting.