Amara Czech said she injected heroin and fell out of consciousness and later regained it to find her boyfriend, Justin Platt, dead or dying of an overdose in the bedroom of his Washington apartment last month.“He was black and blue,” Czech recalled Friday. “I ran up to him and he had puke ...
A jury acquitted a Burgettstown man whose attorney contended a 2017 nonfatal stabbing was a case of self-defense on his client’s part.Jurors found Jeffrey Painter Jr., 27, not guilty on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of a weapon and other charges stemming from an ...
Jurors chose not to return a death sentence against a former Washington man for a homicide he was found guilty of committing six years ago in the city’s West End.The Washington County jury of six men and six women deliberated for about three hours Tuesday before they instead sentenced Brandon ...
Jurors heard testimony Monday about the traumatic childhood and family life of a 24-year-old Washington man before he was arrested in a 2013 fatal shooting, for which he could now be sentenced to death.The same Washington County jury of six men and six women found Brandon Wolowski guilty ...
The lawyer for a former Washington man found guilty of fatally shooting another man six years ago in the city’s West End neighborhood asked the jurors to give his client a chance at redemption.“Yes, he committed horrible, horrible criminal acts,” said Thomas N. Farrell, an attorney ...
Washington County jurors deliberated for about 90 minutes before convicting a former Washington man of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Matthew Mathias six years ago.The case against Brandon Wolowski, 24, now enters the penalty phase, when jurors will decide whether or not Wolowski ...
