Erie house party murder: Second defendant, 21, to plead guilty
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Erie homicides: 1 of 2 defendants pleads to 3rd-degree murder, sentenced
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The number of confirmed shots-fired calls in 2020 jumped more than 80% over 2019 s figures.
Erie police officers took 136 stolen firearms reports in 2020. They took 76 in 2018 and 79 in 2019.
There were eight people fatally shot in the City of Erie in 2020.
Erie was already in the midst of another spike in gun violence when a 13-year-old boy was shot multiple times while walking home from a relative s house on the evening of Dec. 5.
That shooting, which claimed the life of Kasir Gambill 10 days later, compounded the problem, according to Erie Police Chief Dan Spizarny.
Following a year in which Erie experienced significant increases in the number of reported shootings, the number of people shot and the number of people killed by gunfire, 2021 has started in a similarly dangerous fashion in the city.
Erie Times-News
A magisterial district judge has reinstated a criminal homicide charge that Erie police filed against a city man in a fatal shooting in late September and held the charge for court.
Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney recently reinstated the homicide charge against 22-year-old Tajh D. Easter that Carney had dismissed following Easter s preliminary hearing in mid-January after the Erie County District Attorney s Office filed a motion asking Carney to reconsider the decision.
Easter is charged with 20-year-old Erie resident Duane E. Buckner III in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Dayquan Holloway and the wounding of another 25-year-old man at a residence in the 800 block of Walnut Street where a house party was taking place on Sept. 27. Buckner is also charged with homicide and other offenses and was held for court on all charges following the Jan. 14 preliminary hearing.