PITTSBURGH (AP) - The mother of a man convicted in the shooting death of a Pennsylvania police officer has been convicted of helping him elude police in the days after the 2017 shooting.
Sherry Holt, 49, of Pittsburgh, was found guilty Thursday of hindering apprehension following a nonjury trial. She faces up to seven years in prison when she’s sentenced April 23.
Her son, Rahmael Sal Holt, was sentenced to death last year after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of New Kensington officer Brian Shaw. He was fatally shot after an attempted traffic stop on Nov. 17, 2017.
Prosecutors contended Holt was an armed drug dealer who had planned to rob the driver of the SUV that Shaw attempted to stop in Old Kensington in Westmoreland County on the night of the shooting. Holt has maintained that he wasn’t the person who fired.
Rahmael Sal Holt was arrested after a four-day manhunt.
His cousin, Marcel Mason, 30, of Pittsburgh, was convicted last year on a hindering charge and was sentenced to 15 to 30 months in prison.
Mason’s girlfriend, Aysa Benson, 32, also of Pittsburgh, is expected to stand trial this year on a hindering charge.
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