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Investigators first traced the cause of a fatal crash in Brookline to the brakes, then to the fluid cap, then to the mechanic who left the cap unscrewed. Last week, the mechanic was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter, setting in motion what legal experts say is a remarkable case.
In Pennsylvania, a child under the age of 10 is considered too young to be culpable in a crime. Courts also recognize that youths aged 10 through 17 are different from adults, so their cases automatically are handled in juvenile courts. But not when it comes to murder.
Did Christina Korbe hear the police officers at her door identify themselves? Did she really feel that her life and the lives of her children, ages 10 and 4, were in danger?
After five hours of deliberation, an Allegheny County jury acquitted a Penn Hills man of murder this afternoon.
A juvenile court judge will decide whether Rachel Booth, 13, was justified in the fatal shooting July 30 of her father in their Elizabeth Township home, a Common Pleas judge ruled yesterday.
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Booth could have gone to trial in juvenile court to try to prove that a lifetime of abuse led her to kill her father last summer with a shotgun blast to the face. Instead, the Elizabeth Township girl opted for a less-traumatic solution — a deal that keeps her out of jail.
A former strip club owner convicted of federal tax charges was found Thursday evening in his home after an apparent suicide attempt.
At 17, Antowian Kelly was jailed on charges of robbery with an unloaded gun. The Hill District sophomore had no prior record but spent 17 months in Allegheny County Jail before a judge decided his case should be heard in juvenile court.
There isn’t much to console the heart in the desperately sad case of 13-year-old Rachel Booth, an apparent victim of rape and physical abuse. She admitted to shooting her father to death as he lay sleeping in a squalid rental house in Elizabeth Township on July 30.
Having undergone years of alleged emotional and sexual abuse, 13-year-old Rachel Booth aimed a shotgun at her sleeping father’s face and pulled the trigger.