DUI Escapee Charged In Fatal North Side Stabbing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) - Pittsburgh police say a man who escaped from a halfway house while serving a drunken driving sentence has been charged with fatally stabbing a man in August.
Police say 30-year-old David Umstead is claiming self-defense in the Aug. 29 death of 58-year-old Delrio Ivy.
Delrio Ivy was found murdered right next to the Giant Eagle on the North Side. Police say Ivy was stabbed multiple times in his neck and abdomen.
Umstead claims Ivy tried to rob him during a drug deal and that he stabbed Ivy only after being cut by him.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Umstead, who was charged Tuesday with walking away from the Riverside Community Corrections Center when he went to apply for a job but never returned.
Police say Umstead took a bus to Wyoming the day after the stabbing and was arrested in that state on the escape warrant before police got a tip that he killed Ivy, too.
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