Ex-trooper questions Pa. police in another death

[The Straight Story]

Ex-trooper questions Pa. police in another death

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former state trooper who claims he was forced into retirement after challenging the official version of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 12-year-old boy that resulted in a landmark $12.5 million settlement by the Pennsylvania State Police is again questioning the conclusion troopers from the same barracks where he used to work — this time in a crash that killed a pastor's son.

Investigators from the barracks near Uniontown, about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh, contend 18-year-old Ewing Marcus Marietta II fell asleep or otherwise lost control of his 2001 Ford Mustang about 2:45 a.m. while driving down a steep stretch of U.S. Route 40 coming home from a football camp in North Carolina in July 2009. Troopers concluded Marietta was ejected from his rolling car, and died from resulting head injuries three days later.

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Instead, Baranowski said Marietta was mostly likely struck by a passing motorist, probably as he stood in the highway trying to flag down help after the initial crash. Baranowski contends unidentified people in the car he believes hit Marietta are likely the same two individuals he believes stopped and called 911 before being allowed to leave by a trooper at the scene.

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"Later on, the state police, they apologized to me and they said, 'We let two guys go we shouldn't have let go,'" the pastor said, attributing the apology to D'Andrea.


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