The number of continuations for the Ray Shetler Jr. trial continues to grow after Westmoreland County Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio granted a ninth motion for continuance on Monday.
Officials with the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office say no official date has been set yet, but it’s expected to happen sometime in October. They add no exact reason was given for the continuance, but they say it could have been from an overcrowded court schedule.
The 38-year-old Shetler is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and single counts of resisting arrest and attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer. He was found in December of 2021 hiding in his girlfriend’s mobile home outside of Seward after he skipped a probation hearing. He brawled with police officers and sheriff’s deputies and seriously injured one of them, while suffering injuries himself when he was struck in the eye with a stun gun.
Shetler has claimed he was attacked by police in retaliation for his acquittal on murder charges after he gunned down St. Clair Township police officer Lloyd Reed Jr. in 2015. A jury found him not guilty of murder, but guilty of charges related to his escape attempt after the shooting.
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