Restaurateur who shot wife pleads guilty to second-degree murder
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP A tentative plea deal may land a local restaurant owner behind bars for at least a dozen years.
On April 6, in front of Judge James Maceroni in Macomb County Circuit Court, Joseph Palleschi, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Jan. 19 shooting death of his wife, Karen, inside the couple’s home.
The admittance of guilt carries 12 years in prison, including an additional mandatory two years for possession of a firearm during the committing of a felony.
Under the proposed deal, Palleschi would be sentenced between 12 and 24 years at the bottom of the sentencing guidelines.
Share January 20, 2021, 8:45 AM The co-owner of the Villa restaurant in Eastpointe appeared in court Tuesday, charged with one count of open murder in the death of his wife.
The Villa, on Gratiot Avenue, north of 8 Mile (Photo: Facebook) Joseph Jim Palleschi is implicated in the death of Karen Barr Palleschi, who was found in the couple s home early Saturday with a single gunshot wound to the head. The Macomb Daily reports: According to Clinton Township police, officers were dispatched about 2:40 a.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired at a two-story home on Vincenzia Drive at Monticello, in the Terra Bella subdivision near 18 Mile and Garfield roads in Clinton Township.
Police responded to a shots-fired report at the Clinton Township home of Joseph Palleschi, one of the restaurant's third generation of family owners. Palleschi's wife, Karen, was the victim of a single gunshot and was found dead at the scene.
The owner of a popular Eastpointe restaurant was arraigned Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife.
Joseph Palleschi, 55, was arrested over the weekend after police responded to reports of shots fired and found his 53-year-old wife, Karen, dead of a gunshot wound to the head
in their Clinton Township home. The shooting occurred at 2:42 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Palleschi, the owner of Villa Restaurant, sat silently with his hands folded while attorney Jeffrey Davis asked 41B District Court Judge Ryan Zemke to waive the formal reading of the open murder charge against his client. A not-guilty plea was entered on Palleschi s behalf.