Posted on 10/25/2010 1:50:44 PM PDT by sfimom
A man originally convicted of aggravated assault was found guilty of first-degree murder today in the 1993 beating of a woman in Larimer Park. Shawn Sadik faces an automatic life prison term when he is sentenced by Allegheny County Judge Kathleen A. Durkin on Jan. 11.
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Were the perps black and the victim white?
But they did.
Glad they will stay where they should; behind bars.
God bless this woman's family.
Given that she never recovered it makes sense. It’s pretty typical that if the victim dies a couple of days or weeks later they move from assault to murder in the charges, other than the time involved there’s no real difference here.
I don’t know. There were no pictures with the article and I have not been able to find any other stories.
They should get the death penalty.
There are a lot of stories, just no pics of either the victim or the perps, at least I was unable to find any.
Hmmmm. Not sure what 3rd degree murder might be. I don’t understand how such a severe beatings can’t reasonably be understood by the perpetrator(s) to be likely to cause death. This was no accident.
Unless there's a "torture to death" penalty.
i bet there would be no lack of volunteers to carry out that sentence.
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