The fatal shooting of a man outside of his Dublin apartment stemmed from a conversation on the popular online platform, Discord, according to police.
37-year-old Michael Dalipe was shot in the head and killed outside of Dublin’s Emerald Park Apartments last Friday.
His wife heard the gunshots and found him outside, but the suspect was nowhere to be found.
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“Based on social media, we were able to link our suspect 38-year-old Nicholas Paleveda, as having some sort of online conversation with our victim,” Dublin Police Chief Nate Schmidt said. “From there, the investigation was off and we were trying to locate him.”
Chief Schmidt says the suspect and victim knew each other from several different online platforms, including Discord, a popular site for gamers to communicate.
Less than 24 hours later, Paleveda was arrested in a Walmart parking lot almost 400 miles away in the small Southern California town of Barstow.