A case status conference is scheduled today in Indiana County Court for Isaiah Scott, one of three young men charged in the beating deaths of a Cherryhill Township couple at their Hillside Drive apartment outside of Clymer last October.
Scott, who is now 18, is charged with two counts of criminal homicide along with conspiracy to robbery in the deaths of Timothy J. Gardner and Jacqueline Brink. Scott is charged as an adult even though he was 17 years old at the time of the incident. Because of his age, he will not face the death penalty, but the other two defendants, Justin Stevenson and Nathan Price, who were both over 18 at the time, will face the death penalty. Police say Stevenson and Price actually beat the two victims while Scott stood by and eventually fled. The three had gone to the apartment to rob Gardner of drugs and money, but investigators say Stevenson and Price started beating Gardner with a metal pipe, and one of the two of them went upstairs and beat Brink to death with a baseball bat in order to eliminate a potential witness.
In recent weeks, the court has appointed a Pittsburgh psychologist to evaluate Scott and report to the court on whether he should be tried as an adult or a juvenile. The court has also ordered the Blacklick Valley and Penns Manor school districts to furnish Scott’s attorney with all of shi records. Scott transferred to Penns Manor last fall. The case is now scheduled for Criminal Call in September.
