Updated on May 19, 2021 at 5:24 pm
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A caretaker accidentally shot a man with developmental disabilities while unloading his gun inside a Montgomery County group home, police said.
Kashaan Moses, 25, a former employee with the Jewish Education Vocation (JEVS), which provides care for people with special needs and disabilities, told police he recently purchased a firearm earlier this year after losing friends to gun violence in Philadelphia.
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On April 9, Moses arrived at a JEVS residential group home on the 600 block of Rosemont Avenue in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, to work a night shift and take care of three people who lived at the house, including 71-year-old Thomas Lavin. Moses’ job was to keep them safe, wake them up in the morning, serve them breakfast and give them any medication they needed.
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