Detectives also found a cellphone next to Palmen’s body and in reviewing the content observed numerous photographs and text messages related to the sale of illegal drugs, specifically marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs, according to court papers. Hotel staff reportedly found the victim inside a room when they went to investigate a smoke alarm sounding inside the room and immediately notified police.Īrriving officers found Palmen dead and observed he sustained a bleeding wound to the left side of his head, “which upon close inspection, appeared to be a small diameter bullet wound,” Caso and Wright alleged. June 14 when Upper Merion police responded to the Fairfield Inn in the 200 block of Mall Boulevard for a report of an overdose victim in one of the hotel rooms, according to a criminal complaint filed by county Detective Anthony Caso and Upper Merion Detective John Wright.
To the defendant, Henry Palmen’s life was just the cost of doing business,” Hughes argued. Tunnell, 40, of the 2300 block of Bambrey Terrace, faces charges of first-, second-, and third-degree murder, person not to possess a firearm, possessing an instrument of crime and firearms not to be carried without a license in connection with the alleged June 14, 2021, fatal shooting of Henry Joseph Palmen, 35, inside a room at the Fairfield Inn in the King of Prussia section of Upper Merion. The killing was willful, deliberate and premeditated,” Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Gabrielle Hughes argued during her opening statement to a jury as the homicide trial for Jonathan Albert Tunnell got underway on Monday. NORRISTOWN - A Philadelphia man acted with a specific intent to kill when he fatally shot another man in the head during a drug deal that went awry inside a King of Prussia hotel room, a prosecutor argued to a jury.
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