Robert Thomas and Cheron Shelton were charged in Allegheny County for killing five people. After four years of pretrial detention, one had charges dismissed and the other was acquitted at trial.
The second of two men who was accused of killing six people and an unborn child in a 2016 mass shooting in Wilkinsburg is also suing Allegheny County for malicious prosecution. Cheron Shelton filed the complaint in federal court on Friday. Shelton’s co-defendant, Robert Thomas, filed suit last week alleging