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Jurors in Allegheny County deliberated for about six hours over two days before convicting Martell Smith of three counts of second-degree murder in the December 2017 fire.
A Pennsylvania man previously convicted of setting a house fire in Pittsburgh that killed a child and two women faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man convicted of having set a house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago now faces a life prison sentence without possibility of parole.
Prosecutors said Martell Smith intentionally set the fire on Bennett Street in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood back in 2017 after a fight at a bar in Penn Hills.
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