Double homicide trial underway for former Aliquippa football player

BEAVER, Pa. — The trial is underway for a former Aliquippa Football player accused in a double homicide last year.

Ronald Foster, 18, is one of three teens charged in the death of William Cade Booher.  Booher was found shot to death inside a bullet-riddled car.  The body of the driver, Dane Mathesius, was found days later by a homeowner less than 500 feet from where Booher was shot.

One family member told Channel 11 it all happened over $140 worth of marijuana.

The 13-year-old who was riding in the car took the stand Tuesday morning and recounted what happened Sept. 29.

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"Heavy amounts of stress, fear, apprehension, unknown, not knowing the future," said Paul Gettleman of his client, Ronald Foster.

Police called it a drug deal gone wrong when Foster allegedly helped plan a robbery that ended in the shooting deaths of Booher and Mathesius.

"My client had nothing to do with this and nothing to do with what happened," Gettleman said. "He didn't have a gun, didn't have malice in his heart. He just wanted to buy some weed."

Lawrence Reddick is accused of pulling the trigger and killing the two teens.

"My client hasn't been implicated in anything and I don't expect him to be implicated in anything because he didn't do anything other than attempt to buy some drugs with some drug dealers from Beaver," Gettleman said.

The trial continues Wednesday.

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