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PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - The first day of graphic testimony in the trial of Cheron Shelton, charged in the murders of five people including a pregnant woman, during a 2016 backyard cookout in Wilkinsburg.
One of the prosecution’s key witnesses testified, Wilkinsburg detective Michael Adams who identified Shelton as the man he saw getting into a white Lincoln as Adams headed near the murder scene.
In opening statements defense attorney Randall McKinney told the jury that Adams was lying.
Under cross examination McKinney questioned why Adams never stopped Shelton if he thought he might have been a suspect.
The jury also heard the tearful testimony Tonjia Stone-Cunningham, friend to one of the fatal victims, Tina Shelton.
It was Shelton who made the 911 call played for the jury in which she pleads for her friend, “not to die on me.”
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