GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Two women have pleaded guilty to helping a western Pennsylvania fugitive in the days before he fatally shot a police officer.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (https://bit.ly/1m3Kj7A ) reports 39-year-old Nicole Walters and her niece, 25-year-old Amanda Walters, both of Lower Burrell, pleaded guilty Thursday to hindering apprehension and conspiracy. They’ll be sentenced in about three months.
Amanda Walters was the ex-girlfriend of 33-year-old Charles Post who shot Lower Burrell Officer Derek Kotecki when he arrived to arrest Post at a Dairy Queen on Oct. 12, 2011.
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Post was wanted for another shooting 10 days earlier. Westmoreland County prosecutors say the women gave him food, money, clothes and a cellphone while Post eluded police, during which time he called police threatening to kill an officer.
Attorneys for the women say they were sorry but couldn’t have foreseen Kotecki’s death.
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Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, https://pghtrib.com
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