Matthew Paluzzi, the Plymouth man accused of stabbing his father to death this week, was ordered held without bail Friday in Plymouth District Court.
Paluzzi, 26, pleaded not guilty to murder charges before Judge Julie Bernard, who sent him to the Plymouth County Correctional Facility, according to the Plymouth County district attorney’s office. His attorney, public defender Gerasimos Antzoulatos, declined comment.
In new court filings, Plymouth police officers Dylan Ralph and Adrian Halpin detailed the 911 call Plymouth police received at 6:26 a.m. Thursday.
Wendy Paluzzi told police she found her husband, Anthony, 73, unresponsive and covered in blood. She said there was a kitchen knife by the front door of the house at 15 Cedar Road in Manomet.
When police arrived, they found Paluzzi slumped on the living room couch, where he apparently went in the middle of the night because he couldn’t sleep.
One officer wrote that he saw “a significant amount of blood around his neck, soaking his shirt, under both eyes, and soaking the bed sheet covering the couch cushion he was seated against.”
Wendy Paluzzi told police Matthew’s mental health had declined — and that he had been hospitalized — after he was arrested in 2020 for threatening a woman with a gun at a Plymouth drive-thru ATM. He was still on probation from that case.
But she didn’t tell police she thought Matthew killed her husband.
“Wendy Paluzzi was unaware of anyone that would want to hurt or kill Anthony Paluzzi,” the police report said.
Plymouth and state police also spoke to relatives and neighbors, who painted a picture of a troubled man who had been hospitalized for mental health issues in the past few years.
Some neighbors, who are not identified in police reports, said police had been called to the house in the past but not recently.
One neighbor reported hearing Matthew outside the house yelling at his father “I’m going to f— kill you,” the police report said.
At the police station Thursday morning, detectives interviewed Paluzzi’s half-brother — they have the same father. He described Matthew as “immature” “depressed” and “very angry.”
He remembered Matthew telling him on July 3 that “I can’t wait for Anthony to die,” referring to their father.
Police also questioned Paluzzi himself, who was detained by Hanover police in that town, and taken to Plymouth Police headquarters after Plymouth police issued an alert Thursday morning.
He acknowledged having mental health issues and that he just “snapped,” the police report said. But after initially telling police he was going to “tell you guys everything,” he stopped talking and asked for a lawyer, the report said.
Before he was charged with murder, Paluzzi was held as a person of interest pending the outcome of a search, said Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz at a news conference on Thursday.
“This does not appear to be a random act of violence,” said Cruz. “There doesn’t appear to be any threat to the community at large at this time.”
Paluzzi was still on probation after the incident at Citizen’s Bank in Plymouth in 2020.
Police responded to the Karma Hair Salon on Water Street on October 23, 2020, where a visibly upset woman told police she was using the ATM when a man in a sports car approached her and said, “Do you want to die?”
He pulled a black handgun out of his waistband, the woman told police.
The woman walked back to the salon, she said, terrified that he might shoot her in the back.
She was too upset to complete a victim/witness statement, police said. But they were able to use surveillance video to identify the car, a red 2007 BMW.
The car was registered to Paluzzi, a police report said.
When police questioned him, he didn’t deny flashing a gun.
He said the woman looked “sketchy” and thought she might try to rob him.
“Matthew also said he’s had “sketchy” girlfriends in the past and knows how females can be,” according to police.
In November 2022, Paluzzi admitted sufficient facts to the charges — assault with a dangerous weapon and making threats, according to court records. The case was continued without a finding, and he was placed on probation for two years.
His probation would have ended October 31, 2024, court records show. But his probation was revoked Friday after he was charged with murder.
Andrea Estes can be reached at andrea@plymouthindependent.org.