Richard Fagan charged with murder of Gaetano Thomas Oter(

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April 28, 2008 The man found dead inside his 204 Burgandy Hill Road home Sunday afternoon, Gaetano Thomas Oteri, 69, is believed to have died from a wrist laceration that caused significant bleeding. Oteri’s roommate, Richard William Fagan, 61, is being held without bond on a charge of criminal homicide. The investigation by Detectives Derry Baltimore and David Achord shows that Oteri and Fagan got into a fight inside the residence at approximately 9 p.m. Saturday. Fagan admits to pulling a pocket knife and cutting Oteri during the fight. He then left. At 10:45 p.m. Saturday, Fagan was stopped by Officer Jessie Loy on Dickerson Pike near Grace Street for a traffic violation. Fagan smelled heavily of alcohol, admitted to drinking six shots, and was arrested for DUI. He bonded out of jail at 2:15 p.m. Sunday. At 2:15 p.m., a friend of the roommates, who had been told of the fight by Fagan, called the Emergency Communications Center and reported that the screen door to the home was locked, the house appeared to be in disarray, and Oteri was not responding to his knocks. Medcom found Oteri dead inside. Detectives immediately began looking for Fagan and found him with his bondsman downtown. Fagan was taken to the South Precinct, interviewed, and charged with Oteri’s murder. This was in Nashville, TN, and my dad called me the other night. and told me about it. I had known Rich Fagan briefly since him,my dad,my second cousin Kim Williams wrote the hit song called" Light at the end of the tunnel" by B.B. Watson back in 1991. I had met Rich Fagan at my dad's apartment complex there in Hermitage, TN at the time, outside of Nashville, about 20-30 mns. It's hard to believe that someone that your family is close to, and than to come find out, that they are in jail NOW for murder. My dad hasn't seen Rich Fagan in about a couple of years before the murder of Mr. Oteri.