There was a little bit of action last week in one of the area’s homicide cases, as Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco scheduled a hearing for later this month on a defense motion on behalf of Nathan Price, one of three defendants in the murders of a man and woman last October at their apartment outside of Clymer in Cherryhill Township.
Price, who just turned 19 years old two weeks ago, is accused along with Justin Stevenson and Isaiah Scott in the beating deaths of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink at an apartment along Hillside Drive. Investigators say the three suspects went to the apartment to make a drug deal but suddenly started beating Gardner with a metal pipe and then went upstairs and beat Brink with a baseball bat to eliminate her as a witness. Two sleeping children in the home were unharmed.
Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty is seeking the death penalty against Stevenson and Price, but not against Scott because he was 17 years old at the time of the attack and he was not directly involved in the beatings.
Last week, Judge Bianco set a hearing for July 26th on Price’s motion for a separate attorney for the penalty phase of the trial and a separate motion for pauper’s status, which would entitle him to a waiver of costs associated with his defense.
Price and Stevenson are scheduled for Criminal Call on September 1st. Scott is listed for Criminal Call on November 3rd, but has a hearing on July 23rd on a motion to move his case from Common Pleas Court to be tried instead in Juvenile Court.
