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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

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...