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Accused Killer Of Former Valley Hospital, North Bergen, Union County Priest Identified
A man being held in a Michigan jail killed an accused sex-abusing priest who once served as a chaplain at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, at a parish in North Bergen and at three Union County churches, authorities in Nevada said.
Derrick Mitchell Decoste, 25, shot 70-year-old John Capparelli in the neck during a robbery at his home in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas, on March 9, authorities said.
Decoste exchanged messages with Capparelli after answering an online ad for male wrestlers, they said.
Authorities said they recovered the murder weapon – a 9mm handgun – from Decoste’s girlfr…
