A homicide trial against a Munhall man began Monday with a detail the prosecution claimed is undisputed: that Darion Abel told a police officer, “I just shot my girlfriend 17 times.”
During opening remarks that ran 22 minutes, Allegheny County Assistant District Attorney Alexa Roberts said it’s not a question of whether Abel killed Miranda Grimm-Gilarski on Nov. 17, 2018, but whether he meant to do so and should be convicted of first-degree murder.
The district attorney’s office said it does…