Conowingo resident Joe Berry, Jr. has been identified as the person pronounced dead at the scene on Tuesday, Sept. 24 in a shooting incident and fire that also left his mother and father injured.
Investigators say that troopers were called at around 2 p.m. to check on a reported shooting at a home in the 200 block of Mount Zoar Road, where they found Berry outside suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
According to police, they also found Berry’s 80-year-old father at the scene, who declined medical treatment, and a 78-year-old woman believed to be his mother, who had to be taken by ambulance to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center for treatment of injuries that were not from gunfire.
The father is reportedly cooperating with state police investigators.
It is believed that an argument between Berry and his father led to the fatal shooting when the son attempted to break into the residence before his father retrieved a firearm and shot him..
Firefighters were also called to extinguish a fire in an adjacent home, which remains under investigation.