Erie man found guilty for Erie’s first fatal shooting of 2024

An Erie County jury has found an Erie man guilty of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend’s nephew and seriously injuring her.

That shooting was the first homicide of 2024.

The jury only took about an hour and a half Friday afternoon to find 36-year-old Melvin Burnett Jr., guilty of shooting Latashia McCollum and fatally shooting 35-year-old Deonte Tate…

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