Not Guilty Pleas Entered In Deadly Main Line Home Invasion: Reports

WYNNEWOOD, PA — The three men charged in connection with the Wynnewood home invasion led to a man being fatally shot and his mother being seriously hurt have pleaded not guilty.

Jeremy Fuentes, 26, of Philadelphia; Kelvin Roberts, 42, of Philadelphia; and Charles Fulforth, 41, of Jenkintown, are being held in Montgomery County after authorities said they were involved in the shootings of Andrew Gaudio, 25, his mother 61-year-old Bernadette Gaudio in their Wynnewood home on Dec. 8, 2024.

Fuentes is accused of giving information to Fulforth and Roberts that eventually led the two to break into the home in an attempt to steal firearms, authorities said. However, the address given to Fulforth and Roberts was incorrect, leading them to the Gaudio's home erroneously.

The Montgomery County District Attorney's office said the pair went to 9 Meredith Road in Wynnewood in hopes of stealing guns, but did not find any weapons and instead took a jewelry box after shooting Bernadette Gaudio while she lay in bed. They then killed Andrew Gaudio as he laid face down on the floor of his mother's bedroom, according to authorities.

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In court Wednesday, all three pleaded not guilty to their charges, which include first- and second-degree murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit burglary, and more crimes, according to Main Line Media News.

Authorities scheduled a trial for the three men on July 21, the outlet reports. Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.

Authorities said Fulforth, Roberts, and Fuentes were employed at Junkluggers in Willow Grove. Junkluggers provided an estimate for junk removal at a Bucks County home. That estimate was done by Fuentes, who noticed large gun safe, multiple firearms boxes, gun parts and ammunition, none of which were part of the estimate to be removed by Junkluggers.

Roberts and Fulforth learned through Fuentes that the home contained numerous firearms, according to authorities.

Fuentes and Fulforth were interested in stealing the firearms in furtherance of their gun trafficking organization that illegally sold factory-made firearms as well as privately made ghost guns, machine gun conversion devices and silencers using multiple 3D-printers, authorities said Friday.

Authorities in late January said five people from Philadelphia were charged in connection with the gun trafficking organization that Fulforth and Fuentes are accused of running. They are Aaron Hiller, 24; Marcus Lee Jackson, 33; Jonathan Rodriguez, 26; Corry K. Simpson, 38; and Frances Staten, 38.

Somewhere in the pipeline of information relayed to Roberts and Fulforth, the target address got mixed up with the Wynnewood address.

Authorities said Roberts was planning to flee to Jamaica and had a 9mm handgun on him when he was taken into custody.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said anyone who has used Junkluggers recently and has had home burglaries or items stolen from them to contact authorities. Junkluggers's owner has been cooperative during the investigation, according to Steele.

Authorities identified Roberts as a suspect after conducting vehicle record searches and visiting a home on Sansom Street in Philadelphia. When investigators searched the Meredith Road home shared by the Gaudios, they found 11 spent shell casings, among other things.

Three of those fired cartridge casings were from a 9mm gun and eight were from a .25 caliber firearm. The two different shell casings led authorities to believe at least two people were involved in the home invasion.

When Fulforth was taken into custody, authorities said he was carrying bags that contained, among other things, various tools, gun parts, .25 caliber ammunition, and 9mm ammunition. A search of Fulforth’s apartment found a loaded 9 mm ghost gun, a black balaclava mask, a 3D printer, and other materials used to make ghost guns and ammunition.

A firearms and ballistics expert matched the recovered ghost gun to projectiles recovered from Andrew Gaudio’s body at the autopsy.

In addition to the jewelry box, a 2004 Jeep Cherokee was stolen in the incident.

Dashboard camera footage from Lower Merion Police captured Roberts driving his girlfriend's Hyundai early in the morning on Dec. 8, while the driver of the stolen Jeep was unaccounted for. Authorities later tracked the Hyundai to Sansom Street in Philadelphia.

While reviewing surveillance footage from that area after the home invasion, authorities saw who they said was Roberts pull up in a white vehicle and then a Jeep Cherokee pull up shortly thereafter. The video also showed an unidentified man get out of the Jeep. The two men were seen walking toward Roberts' girlfriend's home on that block of Sansom Street.

The Jeep was found that same block, authorities said.

According to authorities, after getting inside the home, Roberts and Fulforth went upstairs, shot Bernadette Gaudio, then fatally shot Andrew Gaudio when he came to his mother's aid. It's unclear which suspect shot who, authorities said.

Bernadette was able to call 911 using Siri on her iPhone, which authorities called incredibly brave, as Roberts and Fulforth were still in her home when she made the call. Authorities said she is paralyzed, but has regained some movement since the shooting.