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An Allegheny County jury on Thursday convicted a man of three counts of second-degree murder in connection with a Homewood fire that killed three people in 2017. The charges carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for Martell Smith, 45, who had a home

Cecil Douglas Sr. was asleep in his third-floor bedroom on Dec. 20, 2017, when he heard his step-son’s girlfriend call out, “‘Mom, mom, the house in on fire.’” At first, Douglas told an Allegheny County jury on Monday, he thought maybe Shamira Staten had burned something in the kitchen as