NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. — The attorney for a man who acknowledges fatally shooting a former western Pennsylvania high school football star says his client did so in self-defense after the athlete and another man tried to break into his client's houseboat.
Attorney Stephen Colafella says his client, 19-year-old David Mooney, has acknowledged firing one shot which hit 18-year-old Deandre Moon in the groin and caused him to bleed to death early Wednesday.
Moon was a star running back who had just graduated from Rochester High School and planned to play for Division II Concord University in the fall.
Colafella says Mooney gave New Brighton police a statement claiming self-defense.
Mooney hasn't been charged and Colafella says, "I think for someone to confess to having shot someone and then walk out of the police station, that speaks volumes about what happened."