There is finally a trial date for Nathanial Ray Price, the 20-year-old man charged in the killings of a Cherryhill Township couple at their apartment outside of Clymer on October 27th of 2016.
Jury selection is scheduled in the courtroom of Judge Thomas Bianco on November 18th, more than three years after the murders of 26-year-old Timothy Gardner and 20-year-old Jacqueline Brink. 21-year-old co-defendant Justin Stevenson of Clymer pleaded guilty last August to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison without the chance for parole.
Price and Stevenson went to the apartment after arranging to buy marijuana from Gardner, but investigators say they had actually planned to rob him. They jumped him in the foyer of the apartment and beat him to death with a metal pipe. Then one of them went upstairs and beat Brink to death with a baseball bat because she was a witness. Price and Stevenson each say the other killed Brink. A third suspect, Isaiah Scott of Clymer, fled the scene when Gardner was attacked. He originally faced the same charges as Price and Stevenson, but his case was later transferred to juvenile probation because he was 17 years old at the time.
Price is charged with two counts of criminal homicide and single counts of robbery and conspiracy to robbery. District Attorney Pat Dougherty will ask for the death penalty. Judge Bianco set the trial date yesterday after having held a pretrial conference on May 2nd. He also scheduled another pretrial conference for October 4th.
