Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Norristown Acting Police Chief James Angelucci announced a homicide at 8:52pm on Thursday, February 13 in the 800 block of George Street in Norristown.
Officials said the incident left 27-year-old Cesar Flores-Diaz dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
Arriving officers found a running white Volkswagen CC on the west side of George Street with its headlights on. The vehicle’s driver, later identified as Flores-Diaz, was found deceased.
A joint homicide investigation by Norristown Police and the Montgomery County Detectives located surveillance video, which showed that Flores-Diaz was parking his vehicle outside of his residence when a single gunman ran across the street to the driver’s side window and fired multiple shots. The video shows that the shooter walked to the area and waited in a stairwell for approximately five minutes before Flores-Diaz arrived in his vehicle. A
After the shooting, the shooter fled on foot, running north on George Street, officials said.
A reward of $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification and arrest of the male shooter, “who is wearing a unique blue backpack and has a distinctive gait,” the District Attorney wrote in a statement.
Anyone with information about this incident should call Montgomery County Detectives at 610-278-3386 or Norristown Police at 610-270-0977.
The surveillance video is below:
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