This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Feb 5, 2018 Pennsylvania State Police troopers who shot at a 71-year-old Summit Township man after troopers said the man fired an assault rifle at them in early January were justified in their use of deadly force, Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri announced Monday. Anthony […]

This article was originally published on goerie.com on Feb 1, 2018  Erie police were searching for a suspect in a late-morning shooting on the city’s east side Thursday. No one was reported injured in the shooting, which was reported in the area of East 25th and Parade streets shortly after 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers were called to

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on Jan 30, 2018 CLEVELAND — The family of a Cleveland retiree whose shooting death was recorded and shared on Facebook is suing the social media company for failing to notify authorities about threats posted by the shooter. The wrongful death lawsuit filed over the April slaying of Robert Godwin

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 26, 2018 The lawyer for Russell, Eric Hackwelder, said in an interview that the prosecution witness was Eugene Husband, and that Husband was “allegedly going to testify” that Russell and Jones were in the SUV whose occupants, according to the Erie police, fired the fatal

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 24, 2018 Personal belongings and two guns found in or near a crashed SUV provided investigators with early clues after a fatal shooting at a July 2015 outdoor party, an Erie police detective testified Tuesday. Fingerprints also linked two defendants who are on trial in

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 23, 2018 A teenage gunshot victim saw a vehicle circle three times before gunfire erupted at a crowded outdoor party he attended in July 2015, the boy testified Monday. “The third time it came it started shooting,” said the boy, 16-year-old Quaylen McLendon, who was

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 22, 2018 A party in Erie on a warm summer night, shattered by gunfire. Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri laid out this scene for jurors Monday as he began to map the evidence he plans to present against four men on trial in a

This article was originally published in GoErie.com on Jan 19, 2018 A jury has been chosen in the homicide trial of four Erie defendants accused in a 16-year-old boy’s shooting death. The defense and prosecution worked into Thursday evening to select 12 jurors and two alternates in the trial against the four — Keshawn C. McLaurin and

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 17, 2018 Police charge that the four fired shots from an SUV as they drove through the party, eventually crashing into a nearby utility pole. They face charges including homicide, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment, among others. A witness told

This article was originally published on goerie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 13, 2018 A man accused of killing his wife on Lake Erie’s waters is asking that his case be dismissed in Erie County court because, the defense claims, it’s not clear whether the homicide occurred in Pennsylvania. He’s also asking for a change of venue