Defense will try to prove man charged with killing McKeesport officer didn't know right from wrong

Opening statements are underway in the trial of a man accused of shooting and killing a McKeesport police officer.Johnathan Morris is charged with killing police officer Sean Sluganski and injuring another officer in 2023 when they responded to a mental health crisis. The trial opened Monday with the chilling radio transmissions of wounded officer Charles Thomas, who moments later would discover that Sluganski, his partner, had also been hit. Sluganski, a well-regarded eight-year police veteran, succumbed to his wounds. Prosecutors say that after shooting at and missing a third officer, Morris was arrested and charged with nine counts of criminal and attempted homicide, including murder of a law enforcement officer.But in the trial ahead, the fact that Morris shot and killed Sluganski and shot and wounded Thomas is not in dispute. In her opening statement, defense attorney Carmen Robinson said Morris, an Afghanistan war veteran, suffered from PTSD and persecution delusions, and was ac