Charlie Robertson, former mayor acquitted of race-riot murder, dies at 83 - News Summed Up

Charlie Robertson, former mayor acquitted of race-riot murder, dies at 83


Charlie Robertson, two-term mayor of York, Pa., arrives at the county courthouse for a preliminary hearing in 2001. Mr. Robertson exits through a back door of the county courthouse on the opening day of his murder trial in 2002. Murder is the charge,” Mr. Robertson said. Prosecutors had argued Mr. Robertson gave ammunition to at least one of the gunmen to avenge Schaad’s shooting three days earlier. “Everyone knew who was involved,” Mr. Robertson told Time magazine the year before his trial.


Source: Washington Post August 26, 2017 16:07 UTC



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