Friday, March 29, 2013
Sean Overton was being held in jail without bond for the death of 61-year-old Isaiah Dent.
Charges against a Coraopolis man wrongly accused in the January beating death of a McKees Rocks activist will be dropped, according to the Allegheny County district attorney's office. Sean Overton, 20, was arrested earlier this year in connection with the death of 61-year-old Isaiah Dent. He appeared in court last month and homicide charges were held for trial. According to the Post Gazette, Londele Cox, 21, of Elliot, told police they had arrested the wrong man. He was arraigned Thursday on charges of homicide, robbery and tampering with evidence, court records show. Dent was found dead Jan. 28 in his apartment with blunt trauma to his head and puncture wounds on his face. Allegheny County Police received a tip on Overton and found him …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
An Imperial woman has been taken into police custody in connection to a Steubenville Pike bar homicide.
An Imperial woman has been arrested in connection to a Monday morning homicide at the Fort Pitt Inn in North Fayette. Gloria Mazzocco, 60, is the mother off alleged gunman David Mazzocco, who police say opened fire in the Steubenville Pike bar, killing a 29-year-old man and injuring others. Gloria Mazzocco was taken into custody at her residence today. Her son, angered by a text message while at the Fort Pitt Inn, exited the bar and re-entered with a gun—opening fire and killing James Adams, of Imperial, and injuring at least two other patrons, police said. The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Patrons at the bar attempted to subdue David before North Fayette Police took him into custody. David was prohibited from possessing…
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A 19-year-old accused of killing a McKees Rocks man was found hiding in his mother's Moon Township home.
A Coraopolis teen will stand trial for the killing of a 61-year-old McKees Rocks man. Sean Overton, 19, was held for court on Feb. 22 on charges of criminal homicide and robbery. A charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed. He appeared in district court in McKees Rocks borough. Overton is accused in the killing of McKees Rocks resident Isaiah Dent, who was found dead Jan. 28 in his apartment with blunt trauma to his head and puncture wounds on his face. Allegheny County Police found Overton on Jan. 30 at his mother's Cedar Drive home in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood. Court records indicate Overton's address is in Coraopolis, though county police said the teen has ties to Pittsburgh's West End and McKees Rocks. A formal …
Saturday, February 9, 2013
The man's death was ruled a homicide.
An Avella resident was hitchhiking on Old Route 40 in Donegal Township, Washington County, about 9:20 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, 1972 when he spotted the badly decomposed body of a man. The man was down an embankment, about 65 feet south of the roadway. His skeletal remains were found in a briar thicket, near a small trash dump, about two miles west of Claysville. It was estimated that he had been there for about 8 to 10 weeks. The man's death was ruled a homicide, according to the Pennsylvania Missing Persons website. The man had gunshot wounds in his left torso, possibly from a .22-caliber weapon. While details about the man's appearance and clothing are many, there are no clues as to who he was, where he came from or why he died. The man …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Police find a man wanted for the slaying of a peace activist in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood.
Allegheny County Police today found a 19-year-old man wanted on homicide charges in Moon Township's Mooncrest neighborhood. Sean Overton, who has ties to both the West End and McKees Rocks, was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. today after police located him at his mother's Cedar Drive home. The teen is charged with the slaying of McKees Rocks artist and peace activist Isaiah Dent, according to a county police statement. Dent, 61, was found dead Monday morning in his McKees Rocks apartment after family members requested that police conduct a welfare check at his residence. He was found with blunt trauma to his head and puncture wounds on his face. Overton, who is accused of beating Dent to death, is lodged at the Allegheny County …
Saturday, November 24, 2012
These cases in the Pittsburgh area did not have a happy ending but finding those missing persons might have brought closure to families.
As early as this July, people in the law enforcement community knew that the remains of Amanda Sue Myers of Pittsburgh had been identified through DNA comparison. However, it was only last week when Pittsburgh police finally released the news. In July, two separate sources told Patch that Amanda had been identified but that police wanted to hold off on releasing information until some interviews had been conducted. Amanda, who was 22 at the time of her death, was last seen in Pittsburgh at the end of 1999 but may have been in Florida and Tennessee as late as April 2000. She was not reported missing until 2007, according to thePennsylvania Missing Persons website. Known unofficially as Homestead Jane Doe, Amanda was found deceased on Oct. …
Saturday, September 29, 2012
The 22-year-old Dormont woman was killed in 1989 on her way home from a party in Mt. Lebanon—her mutilated body found in the backyard of a house on Voelkel Avenue near the light rail transit tracks.
Today, 23 years after her death, people inDormont are still talking about what happened to Catherine Corkery. The 22-year-old left a party in Mt. Lebanon at the Academy Avenue home of Sam Amado on July 22, 1989 and headed home to the apartment she shared with a boyfriend, Tim Rooney, on Ordinance Avenue. But she never made it. Somewhere along the light-rail transit tracks where the "T" runs, Corkery met her attacker. She was just 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighed just 100 pounds. That person twisted a rope-like restraint around her throat and pulled her to the tracks, splitting her head open when it struck a rail, the Tribune-Review reported. In a 1997 story, the newspaper quoted Allegheny County Homicide Sgt. Nicholas Bruich, the lead case …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
A West Virginia woman whose young child died days after nearly drowning in a Green Tree hotel room bathtub earlier this month now faces homicide charges.
A West Virginia woman whose young child died days after nearly drowning in a Green Tree hotel room bathtub earlier this month now faces homicide charges. Sharon Flanagan, 33, was arrested on July 1 after investigators said they believed she tried to drown her 2-year-old son, Steven, while at the Best Western Hotel on Greentree Road near Aiken Elementary. The boy was taken to the hospital, but died on July 6. That prompted the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office to perform an autopsy, which investigators say led them to determine the cause of death as homicide. Investigators said Sharon Flanagan was in the room at the time of the incident and gave police different versions of the events that had taken place. She had already been …
Michael Thimas
11:44 am on Monday, April 1, 2013
Good thing nobody listened to Debra above. They accused the wrong man. He is free on the streets now Debra Williams. more ›