Left inset: Christopher Wasnetsky (Lackawanna County Prison). Right inset: Jeffrey Moeller and his wife (GoFundMe). Background: The Lowe’s store where Wasnetsky fatally shot Moeller (WNEP).
A Pennsylvania man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of killing a co-worker at a Lowe’s store—an attack he foreshadowed in an email to the company’s human resources department.
Lackawanna County Common Pleas Judge Margaret Bisignani Moyle sentenced 37-year-old Christopher Wasnetsky to life without the possibility of parole Thursday for killing Jeffrey Moeller, according to court records. The mandatory sentence followed a jury’s August conviction on a charge of first-degree murder.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Wasnetsky emailed HR before the shooting and claimed he would not have killed Moeller if the company had taken action on his earlier complaints about his co-worker.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by local ABC affiliate WNEP, Scranton police were called to the Lowe’s on Viewmont Drive at about 12:30 a.m. June 14, 2025. Officers found 44-year-old Moeller lying in a pool of blood. The complaint said he had been shot twice in the head and once in the back. Paramedics transported him to a hospital, where he later died.
Wasnetsky admitted what he had done almost immediately, calling 911 soon after the shooting.
“I’d like to report a shooting at Dickson City Lowe’s,” he reportedly told the dispatcher. “I was the person that did it.”
Asked why he had fired the gun, Wasnetsky reportedly cited “months of harassment and other things.” The store manager later told investigators that the company had reviewed Wasnetsky’s complaints but found no evidence supporting them, according to the criminal complaint.
Wasnetsky made similar allegations against Moeller during his interview with detectives.
“He said the victim, Jeff [Moeller], had been harassing him over a period of time, and no one would do anything about it,” police wrote in the affidavit, according to reports.
Wasnetsky told investigators that he brought a handgun to work intending to kill Moeller and then take his own life. He also said he had practiced firing the weapon in his backyard, according to The Scranton Times-Tribune.
Surveillance video reportedly showed Moeller operating a forklift in the store’s lumber yard when Wasnetsky approached while pushing a shopping cart. Wasnetsky pulled a gun from the cart and shot Moeller in the chest from roughly five feet away. After Moeller fell and attempted to crawl away, Wasnetsky stood over him and fired again, the complaint said.
Investigators also determined that Wasnetsky had brought the gun to work earlier that week with the intention of killing Moeller. He did not carry out the plan that day because Moeller had called in sick.
Moeller had been a stay-at-home father to the three daughters he shared with his wife. After the girls began attending school, he accepted overnight shifts at Lowe’s so he could continue spending time with them during the day, his sister wrote on a GoFundMe page.
At Thursday’s sentencing hearing, prosecutors read a victim-impact statement written by Keisha Moeller, Jeffrey Moeller’s widow. In the statement, she told the court, “I forgive Chris,” according to the Times-Tribune. She also said her husband “wasn’t a bully.”
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