Members of the family of the Plymouth man accused of a deadly stabbing at their residence this week informed police they observed a “recent decline” within the defendant’s psychological well being, hinting that he regarded ahead to his father’s demise.
Matthew Paluzzi, 26, is being held with out bail and is ready to see a forensic psychologist after he allegedly stabbed his 73-year-old father, Anthony Paluzzi, to demise at their residence early Thursday.
The defendant’s mom, Wendy Paluzzi, informed police that her son’s psychological well being “spiraled” after a earlier legal case, noticing a “particular change in behavior” over the past month as he smoked marijuana, Assistant District Legal professional David Cutshall stated throughout a Friday arraignment.
Matthew Paluzzi typically argued together with his mom and father at their residence within the seaside neighborhood of Manomet, his half-brother informed police throughout an interview Thursday. The final time the brother stated he noticed Paluzzi was at a household celebration final month, on July 3.
“During a conversation, the defendant said ‘I can’t wait for Anthony to die,’ referring to their father,” Cutshall stated inside Plymouth District Court docket, the place Paluzzi pleaded not responsible to at least one rely of homicide.
A Plymouth decide accredited the protection’s ex parte movement for bills for a forensic psychologist and continued the case to Oct. 2, coinciding with a probation violation listening to.
Authorities formally charged Paluzzi with the homicide of his father Thursday afternoon, hours after police captured him in Hanover following a chase that spanned a number of South Shore cities.
Plymouth Police and EMS responded to fifteen Cedar Street minutes round 6:30 a.m. Thursday, after receiving a name from the sufferer’s spouse, Wendy Paluzzi, reporting she discovered her husband “unresponsive and bleeding from a laceration to the neck area.”
Police additionally discovered a knife resting on a towel close to the entrance door of the Paluzzi’s raised ranch, Cutshall stated.
“Wendy told police that her son … also lives in the house,” the prosecutor stated. “However, he was no longer there at that time, and she did not know his whereabouts. She also discovered her vehicle, a black Nissan Murano, was missing from the residence along with her keys.”
“She stated she woke up early that morning when she heard the defendant inside the home,” Cutshall continued, “and she saw him walking from his bedroom toward the living room. When she got up and went to the living room she found the victim unresponsive.”
That prompted Plymouth Police to concern a bulletin with Paluzzi’s info and an outline of his mom’s car that he had taken.
A driver quickly referred to as 911 to report that she noticed the automobile within the space of Route 3A in Kingston. Authorities ultimately stopped Paluzzi within the space of Washington Avenue, or Route 139, in Hanover, the place officers took the defendant, sporting a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants smeared with contemporary blood stains, into custody.
At Plymouth Police headquarters, officers swabbed Paluzzi’s palms and checks got here again with a “presumptive positive screening for the presence of blood,” Cutshall stated.
“He initially told police that he would ‘tell you guys everything,’” Cutshall stated. “He stated he had ongoing mental health issues and that he ‘snapped.’”
Police charged Paluzzi in October 2020 with assault with a harmful weapon and threatening to commit against the law after he pointed a gun at a lady at a Plymouth ATM drive-thru, asking her “Do you want to die?”
Paluzzi had been licensed to hold a firearm, however the license was revoked following the incident, stated Cutshall who described the case as a “seemingly random act of violence.”
The defendant admitted ample information to that case in November 2022, main him to be positioned on a two-year probation that was set to finish on Halloween, per courtroom data.
The case prompted Paluzzi’s psychological well being to “spiral,” his mom informed police. An argument Paluzzi had gotten into final summer season along with her and her husband prompted their son to be hospitalized at a Excessive Level Therapy Heart and McLean Hospital, a psychiatric middle in Belmont, Cutshall stated.
As police canvassed the Manomet neighborhood Thursday, a resident highlighted an occasion from final August the place she heard Paluzzi yelling at his father exterior their residence, the prosecutor stated.
“She recalled the defendant saying ‘I’m going to (expletive) kill you,” he added.
Talking with reporters exterior of courtroom Friday, Plymouth District Legal professional Tim Cruz referred to as the incident a “terrible situation” and stated he feels unhealthy for the Paluzzi household and Plymouth, as an entire.
“I am hopeful that in this situation as we go forward,” Cruz stated, “people may learn something from this: How can we prevent the challenges we face in this world of mental health issues and drug issues, which are completely unabated in some instances?”
“We see it all around us right now,” the DA added, “and we as a society need to stand up and do better than that. But I also think that regarding criminal cases, the fact that somebody may have mental health issues doesn’t mean they’re not competent, doesn’t mean they’re not criminally responsible.”
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