Man Ordered To Trial In Slaying At Mother's Day Party

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A man has been held for trial in western Pennsylvania in the shooting death of another man at a Mother's Day party in Pittsburgh last year.

Twenty-year-old Brett Terry is charged in Allegheny County in the May 10 slaying of 26-year-old Jamar Thomas at a home in the East Liberty neighborhood.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the victim's teenage brother testified Friday that the defendant was acting strangely toward the victim during the gathering.

He said Terry was "mean-mugging him and disrespecting" Thomas in front of his family and spat food toward him before returning with a gun and killing him.

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Defense attorney Blaine Jones said the preliminary hearing had been delayed because his client was suffering from an unspecified mental illness at the time of the shooting.