Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict and ordered a new trial for a man found guilty of third-degree murder in last year’s fatal shooting outside a McKees Rocks strip club. Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at Saint
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict and ordered a new trial for a man found guilty of third-degree murder in last year’s fatal shooting outside a McKees Rocks strip club. Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at Saint
Charles Becher said he thought he was going to die outside a McKees Rocks strip club in January. Becher, testifying Friday in his own defense in an Allegheny County homicide trial, told a jury that he had been inside Club Erotica when he heard his sister and cousin were involved
The prosecution told a jury Monday morning that Charles Becher had a duty to retreat from a fight outside Club Erotica in McKees Rocks in January. Instead, Becher introduced a weapon into the altercation that led to the death of two men. Therefore, Assistant District Attorney Ryan Kiray said, Becher
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Security cameras outside of a McKees Rocks strip club captured the shooting early Friday morning that left two men dead and three other people injured, according to court records.
The shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Club Erotica on Island Avenue, and Allegheny County Police have said the gunfire stemmed from an altercation between two groups of people.
Christopher Roy Butler, 22, of West Mifflin, and Seth Andrew McDermit, 31, of Monongahela, were pronounced dead at the scene around 3 a.m.