Apr 25, 2015 1 min read

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man wounded in a Pittsburgh shootout last fall has been ordered to stand trial on homicide charges in two deaths.

Twenty-four-year-old Michael St. Clair of Beaver Falls is charged in Allegheny County in the deaths of 17-year-old Diondre Dozier and 18-year-old Martin Brown Junior. He also faces robbery, conspiracy and firearms counts.

Police allege that the defendant told them that he and a friend went to buy marijuana Nov. 17 and were accosted by a man with an assault rifle and another man. Prosecutors cited text messages on his phone, including a series of emojis or digital ideograms depicting a running man, an explosion and a firearm.

Defense attorney Steven Valsamidis argued that prosecutors hadn’t proven that his client was involved and called their case “speculation at best.”