MAHOPAC – Carmel police released the identity of a man who was shot dead after he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Mahopac home early Saturday morning.
Philip Miraglia of Mahopac was found dead in the residence with multiple gunshot wounds.
The female victim, who suffered a gunshot wound to her leg, had called police just before 2 a.m. to say he was trying to break in to kill her. Police are withholding her name because of the domestic nature of the attack.
When officers arrived on the scene minutes later, Miraglia was dead and the woman was wounded.
Police Chief Michael Cazzari said on Monday the investigation is continuing and they are still looking into how the victim came to possess Miraglia’s firearm.
An autopsy performed on Miraglia determined the cause of death to be gunshot wounds to the torso with perforation of a lung, aorta, liver and mesentery.
