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A second Erie man charged in a 2020 slaying at a house party pleads to third-degree murder, sentenced to 12 1/2 to 25 years in prison

The months-long procession of homicide trials continues in Erie County Court with another case in which the defendant is arguing self-defense. Jury selection started on Monday in the trial of Erie resident Derrick A. Feidler, 36. He is accused of going into his home at 1400 block of West 35th Street to retrieve a rifle before fatally shooting another man in the chest after the two got into an argument outside the residence at about 6:15 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2019. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is contending that Feidler committed first-degree murder, or a premeditated killing,...

Erie Times-News A magisterial district judge has reinstated a criminal homicide charge that Erie police filed against a city man in a fatal shooting in late September and held the charge for court. Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney recently reinstated the homicide charge against 22-year-old Tajh D. Easter that Carney had dismissed following Easter's preliminary hearing in mid-January after the Erie County District Attorney's Office filed a motion asking Carney to reconsider the decision. Easter is charged with 20-year-old Erie resident Duane E. Buckner III in the fatal shooting of 25-...

A shooting at a west Erie house party in late September resulted in the death of one man and the wounding of another as at least four people fired gunshots inside and outside of a Walnut Street apartment house, according to testimony presented at a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Erie police initially charged two suspects with homicide in the case, but a magistrate at the hearing dismissed the homicide count against one of the two. Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney agreed with a defense argument that the bullets police said were fired from the one defendant's gun did not match t...