An Allegheny County judge issued a gag order Wednesday in the case of two men authorities say planned and executed a mass shooting that killed five people and an unborn child in Wilkinsburg last year.
Common Pleas Judge David Cashman approved a request by assistant district attorney Lisa Pellegrini to limit comments to the media by attorneys involved in the case.
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Pellegrini’s motion said the defense attorneys for Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas “made extrajudicial statements to members of the print, radio and television media that would tend to prejudice the trial process related to this matter.”
The order does not prohibit the DA’s office from issuing information about trial dates and other procedural matters.
Shelton and Thomas face multiple counts of homicide, aggravated assault and related charges for the ambush during a March 9, 2016, cookout that also injured three other people.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the two men.
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