Last defendant sentenced in stabbing death of mentally ill man in Pittsburgh

A judge Tuesday sentenced the last of three defendants in the fatal 2024 stabbing of a mentally ill man at an abandoned Pittsburgh house.

Carlena Wells, 20, was sentenced to 2½ to 5 years in prison on a conspiracy to commit aggravated assault charge in the March 2024 death of Marc Kovach, 37.

Police said Kovach, who was schizophrenic, was beaten and stabbed, then his corpse was hidden under the porch of an empty West End house…

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