To Save Victim’s Family From Ordeal Of A Trial, Truitt Offered Plea Deal Even So, Arson Suspect Faces 25 To Life COOPERSTOWN – In county court today, District Attorney John L. Muehl offered Gabriel Truitt, 33, a chance to plead guilty to one of two counts – second-degree murder – in the Dec. 29 arson death in Oneonta of former city firefighter John Heller. “I offered that on the record,” said Muehl, “to try to save the (Heller) family from…
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FACES CHARGES IN FATAL FIRE TRUITT CAUGHT NEXT TO OPD He Was Visiting His Kids, Their Mom By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – After 17 weeks on the run, Gabriel Truitt, 33, is in custody. “Our detectives developed information that he was in the area and served a search warrant at 95 Main St.” – that gray, two-story apartment house right next to Oneonta Police headquarters, said Chief Doug Brenner. There police found Truitt…