Hearing Postponed for Richland Man Charged With Killing Grandmother
Levi Staver is charged with criminal homicide.
The preliminary hearing for Levi Daniel Staver, who is charged with stabbing his grandmother to death at their Richland Township home, has been postponed. Originally scheduled for Friday, the hearing has been postponed until June 7 before Judge Donna Jo McDaniel, according to court documents. Staver, 26, is in the Allegheny County Jail; his bail request was denied. Staver stabbed his grandmother in the back Tuesday morning as she and his grandfather were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amman said. Staver lived with his grandparents and mother at the home in the 3900 block of Gibsonia Road (Route 910). Visitation services for his grandmother, Connie (McCall) Johnston, will be held …
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11:50 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Why did the county mental health professionals fail to find a way to help this young man? Their failure - which really is a failure of the laws supposedly protecting the mentally ill - has destroyed a family. It's time we stood up for the rights of families to protect and provide for their children, including their young adult children with mental illnesses. The mother of this young man tried … more ›