3rd man admits role in shootout

A Philadelphia man joined his two co-defendants in admitting to his role in a shootout that resulted in the death of a man who was eating Thanksgiving dinner in his Norristown residence.

Tymere R. Parker, 21, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of third-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nov. 25, 2021, death of Edilberto Moctezuma.

Judge William R. Carpenter, who accepted a

plea agreement, sentenced Parker to 25 to 50 years in prison.

Parker’s guilty plea came one day after Kevon Clarke, 20, Norristown, pleaded guilty to charges of third-degree murder and recklessly endangering another person and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison, and Savian Creary, 20, Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to charges of third-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, specifically of Clarke, and was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison.

The guilty pleas came before jury selection was to begin this week for the trial of the three men.

By pleading guilty to third-degree murder, a killing committed with malice, Clarke, Creary and Parker avoided potential convictions at a trial of first-degree murder, which would have been punishable by life imprisonment.

With the help of surveillance video from the area of the shooting and an analysis of the bullet hole in the window of the Arch Street residence, detectives determined the shot that was fired into the residence, killing Pelaez Moctezuma, came from Clarke’s shooting location.

Creary and Parker also were observed in the surveillance video running from the shooting scene.

A total of 20 gunshots were fired by the three men during the shootout, prosecutors claimed.

A bullet went through the window of a residence, killing Moctezuma.

The men were charged with homicide under the legal theory of “transferred intent,” which prosecutors use when a defendant intends to kill one person but instead inadvertently causes the death of a second, different person.