Four years almost to the day since the murder of Indiana University of Pennsylvania student Jaedyn Khadim Marcel Wright, 20, of Rankin, Allegheny County, a third suspect in that case had his day in court Friday. Indiana County District Attorney Robert F. Manzi Jr.
said Isaiah Moore, 25, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the Oct. 17, 2020, slaying of Wright, in the parking lot of the Carriage House apartments. Moore entered his plea before Indiana County Common Pleas President Judge Thomas M.
Bianco three days before jury selection was supposed to begin for the second trial resulting from the Wright slaying. According to court records, sentencing is scheduled by Bianco at 8:30 a.m.
on Nov. 25, ten days after the judge is scheduled to sentence the first suspect found guilty in the slaying, Terrion Gates, 22, of Johnstown. Also scheduled for sentencing Nov.
25 is Delmar Larell Chatman, 25, of Johnstown, who pleaded guilty Oct. 9 to a first-degree felony count of robbery in which serious bodily injury is inflicted. Moore still was represented by court-appointed Indiana attorney Annmarie Ellen Everett.
He remains held without bond in Indiana County Jail, as does Chatman, who was represented by court-appointed Greensburg attorney Mark D. Bolkovac. On Sept.
27, an Indiana County jury needed just two and a half hours to Gates guilty of second-degree murder, as well as robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the 2020 incident. Previously, Manzi said Gates f.
