Still No Verdict In Cookout Ambush

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Jurors return Thursday to resume deliberations for a third day in the case against the remaining defendant in the slayings of five people and an unborn baby at a western Pennsylvania cookout almost four years ago. The Allegheny County panel deliberated Wednesday without a verdict in the trial of 33-year-old Cheron Shelton, who is charged with first- and third-degree murder in the March 2016 slayings in Pittsburgh’s Wilkinsburg suburb. Charges were dismissed earlier against 31-year-old Robert Thomas. Defense attorneys say prosecutors lack evidence. Prosecutors vow to seek capital punishment in the event of a first-degree murder conviction.