UPDATE: Terrion Gates’ preliminary hearing was delayed this morning. Indiana County District Attorney Robert Manzi said that Gates’ attorney, court-appointed public defender Christopher Martini of St. Mary’s, had problems with his car this morning and would not be able to make the hearing today. A continuance was granted. No word yet on the new hearing date.
One of the four people accused in a shooting death near IUP campus back in October of 2020 is scheduled to have his preliminary hearing today.
Court documents report that 19-year-old Terrion Gates of Johnstown will go before District Judge Christopher Welch today for his preliminary hearing on charges of criminal homicide, robbery-inflicting serious injury and theft by unlawful taking for the incident on October 17th, 2020 in a parking lot at the Carriage House Apartments on Oakland Avenue. Police say he, along with 20-year-old Isaiah Moore of Philadelphia, 18-year-old Isabella Edmonds of Indiana and 20-year-old Delmar Chatman of Johnstown, allegedly went to see Jadeyn Wright that morning to get some marijuana from him. The meetup lead to Wright’s death by shooting. The four fled the scene after the incident.
Moore recently had a criminal call hearing and is scheduled to have a motions hearing on July 23rd. Chatman has a motions hearing set for July 23rd as well. Edmonds has a criminal call hearing set for October 1st.
Gates was the last in this case to be apprehended by police and is the last to have his preliminary hearing. All four have been in prison since they were apprehended.
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