A South Side Slopes man pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder for the stabbing death last year of his estranged wife. William Fitzgerald, 51, will be sentenced May 13 to a mandatory term of life in prison with no parole by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Elliot Howsie. According to
An Allegheny County prosecutor called the homicide trial of Khalil Walls “a case about a death that never needed to happen.” The defense agreed, telling the jury that if the alleged victim had not acted with “constant, purposeful, relentless” aggression, he would still be alive. Defense attorney Kenneth Haber said
After Thomas Cole said Courde Day shot him four times in the leg in on Nov. 19, 2018 in Cole’s North Braddock cellular store, he refused to tell police who did it. “I didn’t want to because there’s a code in the streets,” Cole testified Wednesday. “I would have never
A Penn Hills man pleaded guilty Monday morning to homicide by vehicle and leaving the scene of a fatal accident in the death and dragging of a man two years ago. Surron Burch, 24, faces a mandatory penalty of 3 to 6 years in prison when he is sentenced by
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