Jan 30, 2015 2 min read

Gabriella Barron, 20, of 31 Buttonwood Ave., Washington, whom a jury found guilty in September of hindering apprehension or prosecution by harboring a man wanted on drug charges in Fayette County, was sentenced Friday to serve one to 23 months in the county jail.

Judge John DiSalle ordered Barron to report to the jail next Friday.

Barron stood trial on a charge of harboring Eric Wells, now 26, who was also one of three defendants in the 2012 homicide of Washington & Jefferson College student Tim McNerney, said Assistant Public Defender Rose Semple.

Barron was charged in August 2013 after she lied to police about Wells being at her home. Police caught Wells after they saw him going out the rear door and arrested him and co-defendants, Adam Hankins, 25, of Washington, and Troy LaMonte Simmons Jr., 25, of East Pittsburgh.

The men were found guilty of third-degree murder during a nonjury trial. Well was sentenced to 13 to 31 years in prison for his role, while Hankins was sentenced to nine to 25 years and Simmons was sentenced to seven to 20 years.

Wells was wanted on a warrant after McNerney, 21, a W&J football player from Butler, was killed during the Oct. 4, 2012, robbery. McNerney and his teammate, Zach DeCicco of Jefferson Hills, were assaulted by the trio as they were walking back to campus from a local tavern.

McNerney was found dead on the ground near South College and East Maiden streets. Wells pleaded guilty to the drug charges in Fayette County and he is serving a sentence concurrently with the homicide charge at State Correctional Institution at Fayette.

Hankins and Simmons are inmates at the state prison at Camp Hill.