McKeesport man charged with killing his mom gives closing argument at trial

Two days before police say a McKeesport man fatally shot his mother and her friend last year in Homestead, he targeted his brother with violence, according to court testimony Monday.

DaTwan Smith, the final prosecution witness in John Malcolm Smith IV’s double homicide trial, told jurors his brother shot at him four times.

He said the shooting happened when he took his mother, Antoinette Porterfield, to her house to retrieve some belongings after John Smith beat her up…

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