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Effort
to shield
illegals
dealt blow
Deadlock at Supreme
Court stymies Obama
plan to give immigrants
relief from deportation

These two guys, they planned it. They carried it out. They had reason to do it.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY STEPHEN A. ZAPPALA JR.

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WASHINGTON An
ideologically deadlocked Supreme Court dealt a severe
blow Thursday to President
Obamas immigration reform
plan, casting the November
election as a referendum on
how to deal with the more than
11 million people living in the
country illegally.
The 4-4 vote leaves in place a
Texas federal judges order that
has prevented Obama from
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high court
to address
what is
widely seen as a broken immigration system.
The ruling does not mean
the government will begin deporting people who might have
been eligible for Obamas program. Speaking at the White
House after the ruling, Obama
emphasized that parents of
U.S. citizens will remain low
priorities for enforcement. As
long as you have not committed
a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are
not focused on you.
The immediate practical impact, however, will be that those
people will not be able to work
legally in the country. Obamas
program would have provided
legal work authority to those
who qualified.
The dispute was one of the
major clashes this year before
the Supreme Court, and the
stalemate demonstrated how
the eight-member court left
equally divided by the death
of Justice Antonin Scalia in
February has been unable to
issue definitive rulings in the
most contested cases.
The justices issued a oneline decision in United States v.

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Cheron Shelton (left), 29, and Robert Thomas, 27, are led out of the Allegheny County police headquarters on Thursday.

2 face homicide counts in Wilkinsburg massacre

Victims family, friends
hope arrests will allow
them to seek closure

Quest for vengeance

fueled attack that left
6 dead, police claim

members of the 581 HillTop

Crips gang.
Detectives suspect the motive for the two who have
been housed in the Allegheny
County Jail for two months
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on unrelated charges was
payback for Powells alleged
Cheron C-Wiz Shelton role in the Oct. 15, 2013, slayraised a semi-automatic rifle ing of Calvin Calio Doswell.
from the shadows between Doswell, 30, a low-level drug
two Wilkinsburg houses and peddler, was working in the
fired at terrified people fleeing same Homewood North public
toward him March 9, killing housing complex, nicknamed
five adults and an unborn Mohler projects, where all
child in a failed attempt to the men grew up.
kill LaMont Murder Powell,
An unnamed woman allegauthorities said Thursday.
edly told Shelton about PowShelton, 29, and the man who ells planned presence at a
allegedly peppered 24-year-old backyard party, setting into
Powell with four gunshots motion a plot to kill him that
Robert Milhouse Thomas, Allegheny County District At27 face multiple homicide torney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.
and related charges in one of said had been percolating for
the worst episodes of gun vio- 2 years.
lence in Allegheny Countys
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history. The pair are suspected

by

Im just happy
they got caught.
I hope they dont
get out. It was
terrifying, said
Robby Booker of
Wilkinsburg, who
lives on Franklin
Avenue near where
the shooting occurred. He was
awakened by the
sound of gunfire.

MEGAN GUZA

Eric Powell did not expect

Thursday to start with a predawn phone call from police,
but he was glad it did.
For a while, I thought it
had gone cold, Powell said
of the investigation into the
murder of two of his children, an unborn grandson
and three other adults at a
barbecue March 9 in Wilkinsburg.
Powell, 56, of Canonsburg
said hed believed investigators did not have enough evidence against Cheron Shelton
and Robert Thomas, both of
whom police suspected in the

immediate aftermath of the

attack and who have been in
jail on unrelated charges for
months.
They called me at 6 a.m.
and had everything wrapped
up, Powell said. Im just
hoping and praying for justice.
Allegheny Countys top
police officials announced
charges against Shelton
and Thomas later Thursday
morning.
Siblings Brittany Powell,
Jerry Shelton and Chanetta
Powell; Chanettas unborn
son, Demetrius; their cousin, Tina Shelton; and family
friend Shada Mahone were
killed in a hail of gunfire during the backyard gathering at
Brittany Powells Franklin
Avenue home in Wilkinsburg.

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Killed were (from left) Brittany Powell, 27; Chanetta Powell, 25, and her unborn son; Jerry Shelton, 35; Tina Shelton, 37; and Shada Mahone, 26.

Britain braces for departure from EU as strong leave results pour in

Breaking away could reshape countrys place in
Europe, have global financial, security implications
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Millions of Britons cast votes Thursday to decide whether

the country should leave the European Union.

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LONDON Britain was

bracing at dawn Friday for
a possible plunge into the
unknown an exit from the
European Union as results
from a bitterly contested referendum showed a strong
surge of votes to leave, the
BBC reported.
As results poured in
through Thursday night and
into the early hours of Fri-

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day, the remain camp was

increasingly despairing while
leave advocates expressed a
growing confidence that their
side had pulled off a shocking
victory.
Results were not complete
as of midnight Friday, however there were nearly 1 million votes more in favor of
leaving the EU.
The referendum could
reshape the countrys place

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in Europe and have economic,

political and security implications around the globe.
The results suggested that
Britain may be even more
deeply polarized than was had
been thought, with huge gulfs
between the views in thriving
metropolitan centers such as
London and those in struggling, post-industrial areas in
other parts of England.
As local authorities
announced results, markets
swung wildly between optimism that the country would
stay in the preferred choice
of investors and pessimism

that Britain had just voted to

get out.
After initially rising, the
pound plunged in international trading as jittery investors prepared for a scenario
that had not been priced into
market calculations.
As the hours ticked by, there
was a dawning realization that
Britain could be on the verge of
becoming the first to leave the
28-member EU.
Bookmakers slashed their
odds for remain, and political
number-crunchers said that

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