Jeannette man drowns in Jamaica awaiting fatality trial
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JEANNETTE. (AP) – A Western Pennsylvania man who drowned while swimming off the coast of a popular Jamaican resort town was awaiting trial for vehicular homicide in Pennsylvania.
Greensburg defense attorney Kenneth Burkley tells a Pittsburgh newspaper the dead man was his client, 43-year-old David McCormick, of Jeannette.
The Jamaica Constabulary Force said in a statement Sunday that McCormick was swimming off the beach town of Negril when he got into difficulties and “drowned before help could reach him.” He had been staying at a nearby resort.
McCormick had been scheduled for trial in August on drunken driving and vehicular homicide charges stemming from an Oct. 9 crash that killed Francis Cossick of Murrysville.
Burkley says McCormick was barred from driving while awaiting trial.