3/1/19
by News Department on 03/01/19Patrick Murphy:
Patrick Murphy, owner of Murphy Jewelers in Pottsville and Hamburg, died Thursday in New Orleans, Louisiana.
According to the Republican Herald, Sources said that Murphy died as the result of a homicide at The Empress Hotel where staff members found his body in a first-floor room just before noon.
However, published reports on the department’s Facebook page said 26 year old Megan Hall has been positively identified as a person “positively identified as the perpetrator” and a warrant was obtained for a charge of second-degree murder.
No additional information is yet available.
Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the Pat's family. He will be dearly missed.
