Man sentenced for helping suspect

A man charged with hindering apprehension of his cousin, who is accused of killing a New Kensington police officer in 2017, will spend 15 to 30 months in prison.

Marcel Mason, 31, was found guilty in a nonjury trial in March before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski of hindering and conspiracy. He was sentenced Tuesday.

Mason was charged a week after the Nov. 18, 2017, shooting death of New Kensington Officer Brian Shaw.

Police said that Mason, at a house in Duquesne, provided a change of clothes to Rahmael Holt, the man they sought in the killing, and that when they interviewed Mason in the days after the shooting, he denied having any contact with his cousin.

Also charged was Holt’s mother, Sherry Holt. She is scheduled for a jury trial June 27 before Judge Sasinoski.

Rahmael Holt is scheduled for trial Nov. 4 in Westmoreland County on charges including murder of a law enforcement officer before President Judge Rita D. Hathaway. Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children and six staff members died.

Mr. Peduto, who is attending the Yale Mayors College and CEO Summit in New York City, was to present Mr. Stack with the summit’s Maverick in Leadership Award at an evening ceremony.

“It’s my honor to present Ed Stack with this award, and to celebrate the integrity and courage he has shown in taking on what we in Pittsburgh know to be one of the most important fights of our time — protecting our neighborhoods, schools, places of worship and all public places from the gun violence epidemic,” Mr. Peduto said in a news release.

Pittsburgh’s three guncontrol laws, which Mr. Peduto signed into law in April, will not be enforced until a judge deems them legal. The ordinances ban the use of certain weapons and ammunition as well as grant courts permission to temporarily seize weapons from anyone posing a danger to themselves or others.