Historian Guilty in Attack on Police
A retired Carnegie Mellon University professor was convicted Friday of trying to kill two police officers who were responding to a domestic dispute at his home in an affluent suburb of Pittsburgh.
A jury found Edward Constant II guilty of two counts of attempted homicide for firing a .44-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver into the chest of a policeman at his front door on May 26, 2002.
Officer Daniel Reig was saved by a bulletproof vest.
Officers said that Constant then emptied his revolver, trying to kill Reig and partner Jeff Kite.
Defense lawyer Paul Boas had argued that Constant was drunk and did not intend to kill. Constant’s blood-alcohol level the night of the attack was 0.235.
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