Indiana County President Judge William Martin has set three December court dates for action against three high-profile defendants.
Judge Martin has scheduled a December 5th pre-trial conference for Charles Cook, the 64-year-old drifter accused of killing 76-year-old Myrtle McGill in her home along South 6th Street in Indiana in December of 1991. Cook was apprehended in Minnesota last year and was extradited to Indiana County in February. After serving time for dealing drugs in Clearfield County, he’d been released from the state prison in Dallas, PA four days before the McGill murder, taking a bus from northeastern PA to Indiana instead of reporting to a Philadelphia halfway house where he was supposed to serve the remainder of his prison sentence.
Judge Martin has also set December 5th for a pre-trial conference for 20-year-old Matthew McNevin of Rayne Township, who is charged with shooting to death Carlos Recalde-Campos and wounding Samantha Riley during the IUPattys event on March 25th in Indiana. Police say bad blood between McNevin and Recalde-Campos led to the shooting.
Finally, Judge Martin has set December 18th for jury selection to begin in the rape trial of 21-year-old Matthew Darby, who is also accused of the brutal murder of a University of Pittsburgh student at her apartment near the Pitt campus last month. Darby is being held in Allegheny County awaiting court action for the death of Alin Sheykhet, his former girlfriend. He is charged with rape, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault for the alleged rape of another ex-girlfriend, an IUP student, last February. She told police she was raped after she told Darby that she was seeing another man.
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