Sheriff deputies and Tarentum police on Tuesday captured a woman whose disappearance caused month-long trial delay for a New Kensington man charged in connection to a 2022 murder.
Amelia Lewis, 55, of Brackenridge, Allegheny County, remains lodged in Westmoreland County Prison. She is scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday morning to determine whether she remains in custody until she is called to testify in the July murder trial of Larry Osborn Nix Jr.
Nix, 47, of West Brownsville, Washington County, was set to go to trial in June for the Dec. 9, 2022 shooting death of 31-year-old James Michael Hayes. Police said Nix sustained a fatal head wound. His body was found in the parking lot behind Kensington Arms Apartments in the 400 block of 11th Street…