This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 24, 2018 Personal belongings and two guns found in or near a crashed SUV provided investigators with early clues after a fatal shooting at a July 2015 outdoor party, an Erie police detective testified Tuesday. Fingerprints also linked two defendants who are on trial in […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 23, 2018 A teenage gunshot victim saw a vehicle circle three times before gunfire erupted at a crowded outdoor party he attended in July 2015, the boy testified Monday. “The third time it came it started shooting,” said the boy, 16-year-old Quaylen McLendon, who was

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 22, 2018 A party in Erie on a warm summer night, shattered by gunfire. Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri laid out this scene for jurors Monday as he began to map the evidence he plans to present against four men on trial in a

This article was originally published in GoErie.com on Jan 19, 2018 A jury has been chosen in the homicide trial of four Erie defendants accused in a 16-year-old boy’s shooting death. The defense and prosecution worked into Thursday evening to select 12 jurors and two alternates in the trial against the four — Keshawn C. McLaurin and

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 17, 2018 Police charge that the four fired shots from an SUV as they drove through the party, eventually crashing into a nearby utility pole. They face charges including homicide, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment, among others. A witness told

This article was originally published on goerie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan 13, 2018 A man accused of killing his wife on Lake Erie’s waters is asking that his case be dismissed in Erie County court because, the defense claims, it’s not clear whether the homicide occurred in Pennsylvania. He’s also asking for a change of venue

This article was published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on January 14, 2018 OIL CITY — City police charge that a Medina, Ohio, woman was bringing quantities of crystal methamphetamine from Ohio and distributing the drug in the area in December and January. Deidra R. Cunningham, no age available, was in the Venango County prison on $50,000

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Jan 11, 2018 Erie police have charged a teenage boy with robbing a Parade Street store at gunpoint on Sunday night as detectives continue to investigate another Parade Street store robbery earlier that evening. Domonie K. Dixon, 16, was arraigned Thursday morning by Erie 2nd Ward

This article was published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on Jan. 10, 2018 An Edinboro man received electronic monitoring Wednesday at his sentencing for striking the car of an off-duty Erie police officer moments after the officer was involved in a fatal DUI crash in McKean Township in February. Danny C. Hamilton, 36, will spend 30 days

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Jan 9, 2018 An Erie man faces attempted homicide and other charges in an early morning stabbing at an eastside residence on Tuesday. The 36-year-old man is accused of stabbing his stepfather several times around the face and neck areas during a reported domestic incident at