PORT JERVIS, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say they’ve made an arrest in the slaying of a 77-year-old shoe repair shop owner who was found beaten inside his upstate New York business.
The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports (https://bit.ly/1xHcAnb ) that police in Port Jervis announced Monday that 29-year-old Dennis McBee of Port Jervis has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Josef Kucher.
A customer found him Friday morning inside his store, Kucher’s Shoe Repair & Orthopedic, in the Orange County city located where the borders of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey meet. Kucher died the next day.
Police say they arrested McBee at a motel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It couldn’t be determined if he has a lawyer.
Kucher was born in Austria and moved to Port Jervis in the late 1960s.
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Information from: The Times Herald-Record, https://www.th-record.com
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