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Allegheny County to try shootings case
Thursday, May 04, 2000 By Mike Rosenwald, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
The district attorneys from Beaver and Allegheny counties, where five people were killed and a sixth critically wounded on Friday, announced at a news conference yesterday that all of the legal proceedings against the man accused of the crimes will take place in Allegheny County.
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An inquest for Richard S. Baumhammers, the man accused of shooting six people and two synagogues during a rampage that stretched from Mt. Lebanon to Center Township, Beaver County, is scheduled for May 15 at the Allegheny County coroner's office.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. and Beaver County District Attorney Dale Fouse worked together on the investigation from the beginning, and the decision to combine the cases was expected. The consolidation is in accord with a 1997 state Supreme Court ruling that says in incidents where there is a clear "continuos criminal episode" the legal proceedings must take place in one jurisdiction. Allegheny County was chosen, in part, because the chain of events began there with the shooting of Anita "Nicki" Gordon in Mt. Lebanon and because there were four homicides there and thus more witnesses.
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