(Halloween News) Jury is told of pranks, killing - Baltimore Sun
When one egg hit a woman squarely in the chest, a teenager at the party she was attending ran after the boys with a sword. The testimony came on the first day of the murder trial of Jose Antonio Bassat, who is accused of firing a . He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of George Linwood King, a veteran of the Korean War and a retired Bethlehem Steel worker who was known throughout his community simply as “Mister George. One of the men Pollen mentioned by name in court pleaded guilty in May to second-degree murder in King’s death and use of a handgun in a violent crime. Prosecutors say that Otero was riding in the front seat of the SUV from which Bassat fired into the group of children and at King. Bassat and Otero were charged in 2006 after those witnesses - including the woman who drove the SUV and two women whom Bassat threatened to kill if they ever told anyone that he admitted shooting “the old man” - finally told the truth, the prosecutor said. More Halloween News