Man who fled halfway house convicted of third-degree murder
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – A man who escaped from a halfway house while serving a drunken driving sentence has been convicted of third-degree murder in a stabbing death outside a bar last summer.
Jurors in Allegheny County deliberated for about five hours Friday before convicting 31-year-old David Umstead in the August 2014 death of 58-year-old Delrio Ivy.
Umstead told police that Ivy cut him while trying to rob him during a drug deal outside the bar on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Umstead fled to Wyoming, where he was arrested in October.
Defense attorney Aaron Sontz argued that Ivy “drew first blood” and his client acted in self-defense.
Assistant District Attorney Chelsie Pratt argued that it wasn’t self-defense “if you run 35 feet after someone, get on top of him and spend 13 seconds stabbing him.”