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kstephens@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — Efforts on behalf of an Altoona teenager seeking to have second-degree murder and related charges transferred to juvenile court will resume today in Blair County Court. Defense attorney Thomas M. Dickey, representing Logan Persing, who was 16 years old on Feb. 25, 2020, when he and two other teenagers allegedly initiated a robbery that led to the shooting death of 15-year-old Devon Pfirsching, offered witnesses Thursday in support of moving the charges out of adult court. President Judge Elizabeth Doyle, who is convening the hearing through video ...

Phil Ray HOLLIDAYSBURG — Whether an Altoona teenager will be tried in the fatal shooting of a classmate in the adult or the juvenile court now rests with Blair County President Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle. Doyle completed a second day of hearings on where Damien Green, 16, will face charges of second-degree murder and robbery in connection with the Feb. 25 fatal shooting of 15-year-old Devon Pfirsching, a 10th grader at Altoona Area High School. On Dec. 28, Doyle heard from a forensic psychologist, Alice A. Applegate of Pittsburgh, who concluded Green was not a principal participant in the rob...

Green A forensic psychologist from Pittsburgh on Monday recommended that the case of one of the teenage suspects in the February murder of 15-year-old Devon Pfirsching of Altoona be transferred from the adult court to the Blair County Juvenile Court. Alice A. Applegate, who was an elementary school teacher for eight years before receiving a doctorate in psychology, stated that Damien Green, 16, was amenable to treatment in the juvenile justice system rather than face trial before a jury on charges of second-degree murder and robbery in the adult criminal court. If the Green case would be tran...

kstephens@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County judge has ruled that first-degree murder and related criminal charges pending against a 17-year-old Altoonan will remain in adult court. President Judge Elizabeth Doyle recently denied a request on behalf of Owen Scott Southerland, who petitioned the court to have the criminal charges filed against him addressed in juvenile court. The judge, in making her ruling, said she considered “the totality of the factors” to be weighed in evaluating Southerland’s petition, without greater or lesser weight to any specific factor. “In ...