PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man avoided a double homicide trial by entering a plea Tuesday in the 2014 shooting of two men.
Jury selection was underway for Theodore Smedley, 22, when he pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Jamarow Trowery and Rashad Freeman.
Both men were shot in the 5300 block of Brown Way in Garfield on March 25, 2014.
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Smedley also pleaded guilty to a firearms violation.
He was immediately sentenced by Judge Anthony Mariani to five to 10 years in prison.
That sentence will run consecutively to a 20 to 40-year sentence that Smedley is already serving for a previous third-degree murder conviction.
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