Cop’s son says police ‘didn’t do their job’
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MEADVILLE — A Franklin County jury found Greg Burroughs not guilty of manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend, 23-year-old Katherine Sinclair. The jury deliberated for about an hour before reaching the verdict.
MEADVILLE — Greg Burroughs took the witness stand on Monday afternoon … to tell Judge Dal Williamson that he won’t be testifying in his own defense in front of the jury.
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MEADVILLE — Jurors heard text messages between Greg Burroughs and Katherine Sinclair that showed just how volatile their relationship had been in the final days of her life.
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District Attorney Tony Buckley questioned LPD Lt. Shannon Caraway on redirect and helped “clean up” some of the statements she made on body-cam video and under tough cross-examination by defense attorney Tracy Klein.
After the jury watched a 1-hour, 22-minute body-cam video from Lt. Shannon Caraway, District Attorney Tony Buckley got testimony from her about different parts of what they saw.
MEADVILLE — Testimony on Wednesday afternoon ranged from family members to gun experts.
Body-cam showed Burroughs saying he was ‘freaking ... out’ and ‘nervous as hell’
MEADVILLE — Officer Josh Freeman of the Laurel Police Department testified that Katherine Sinclair had “a rag draped over her face, just under her nose” and there was “only a small amount of blood on the rag” despite “profuse bleeding” from a gunshot wound to her head.
MEADVILLE — The text messages between Greg Burroughs and Katherine Sinclair show that their relationship could be volatile and that’s what led to the deadly shooting in his garage last summer, both attorneys agreed. But who pulled the trigger is what they’re arguing about.