Court Hearing Set For Suspects In 6 Cookout Ambush Deaths

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two men accused of killing five adults and an unborn child when ambushing a suburban Pittsburgh cookout in March will face a preliminary hearing July 1.

Twenty-nine-year-old Cheron Shelton and 27-year-old Robert Thomas were charged Thursday with six counts of homicide and other crimes in the March 9 slayings in Wilkinsburg.

Authorities say Shelton and Thomas went gunning for a man they believed had killed Shelton's best friend in 2013 and wound up wounding that man and two others, but also killing the adults and an unborn child one of those women were carrying.

Attorneys for the men have yet to comment on the charges.

Under Pennsylvania law they're being held without bond because of the homicide charges.

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