DA suggests Regola's (PA State Sen Repub) neighbor's death was 'crime'

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06261/722891-100.stm

A legal brief filed by the Westmoreland County district attorney in connection with an investigation into the fatal shooting of a teenage neighbor of state Sen. Robert Regola suggests for the first time that Louis Farrell's death was a crime, rather than an accident or suicide.

Louis, 14, was found dead behind his home July 22 with a gunshot wound of the head. A handgun registered to Sen. Regola was found next to him.

Until now, both District Attorney John Peck and state police investigators have refused to say whether Louis died by accident, suicide or homicide. The county coroner's office has not ruled on a manner of death.

However, in the brief filed last week opposing efforts by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to unseal a search warrant affidavit executed on Sen. Regola's home, the DA's office wrote:

"The affidavit would communicate to the general public that the District Attorney believes that someone may be guilty of a crime, and yet there will be no context in which to evaluate that opinion."

Scaife's rag is reporting this as well.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_471100.html

Westmoreland County prosecutors for the first time have labeled the shooting death of a 14-year-old Hempfield boy shot with a weapon registered to state Sen. Bob Regola as a crime.
In legal arguments filed by District Attorney John Peck in response to media arguments seeking release of a search warrant served on Regola's home last month, authorities never referred to the case as a suicide or an accidental shooting.

Instead, Peck referred several times to the July 22 death of Louis P. Farrell a crime.

"The crime is still recent, and the investigation is actively being pursued," Peck wrote in the 48-page court filing.

Farrell died of a gunshot wound to the head fired from a weapon owned by Regola, who lived next door.

[MissWaverly]

1. justice for all

isn't that what our country is supposed to be; not just for the have mores.

[KingFlorez]

2. There's a lot to this

Was it Regola who fired the shot and if so, why? Very bizarre story here.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Speculation would be it was Regola's kid

who was home at the time. My guess from the time this story broke and I found out Regola's kid was home was two teens horseplaying with a gun. Story broke a couple weeks ago that Regola's kid liked to show-off the gun - but then the story was quickly scrubbed (it was on the Pittsburgh Tribune Review website which is Dicky Mellon Scaife's rag whose paper heavily backed Regola).

[zbdent]

4. I wonder if Regola will be lobbying for a conservative judge now ...

[billbuckhead]

5. 2 more victims of America's permissive out of control gun culture

[rocktivity]

6. Silly me--I thought that "believing that someone MAY be guilty of a crime"

was part of a district attorney's JOB...

I've heard of "thought POLICING," but this is ridiculous!

:eyes:
rocknation

[RamboLiberal]

7. Regola Speaks Out On Neighbor's Death-Suggest 3rd party involved

http://kdka.com/local/local_story_261202040.html

State Senator Bob Regola talked publicly for the first time about the shooting death of his 14-year-old neighbor.

It was nearly two months ago that Louis Farrell was found shot to death in a wooded area behind his house.

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He did, however, raise a possibility that someone else might have been involved -- someone not a member of his family.

"It's a tragedy for both families and we're looking for the solution," said Regola. "I'm very confident that we, myself and my son, have done nothing and we just want to find out if there if there is a third party and whom that person maybe."