Death penalty to be sought against 2 in deaths of man, woman
INDIANA (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against two men accused of having killed a young couple in their western Pennsylvania home before fleeing with a safe.
Nineteen-year-old Justin Stevenson and 18-year-old Nathaniel Price are charged in Indiana County with homicide, conspiracy and robbery in the October deaths of 26-year-old Timothy Gardner and 20-year-old Jacqueline Brink.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that District Attorney Patrick Dougherty said Friday that capital punishment will be sought if the two are convicted of first-degree murder.
A third defendant is ineligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time of the Cherryhill Township slayings.
The county coroner said Gardner was assaulted with a pipe and Brink struck with a baseball bat.