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PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams says new safeguards are in place after a corpse was wrongly sent to Jamaica for burial.

Nineteen-year-old Kemoy Crawford was found dead in a burning trash pile in March and his family eventually requested his body be shipped to Jamaica. Workers shipped the wrong body, which had to be returned.

Williams says the mistake upset the man's family, and cost $9,000 to correct. He says one worker was terminated and three suspended. But the worker who Williams says was fired claims he resigned instead, but declined further comment.

Williams says the bodies got mixed up because both were unidentified at first and had wristbands listing the street where they were found. Both street names started with the letter 'A' prompting the confusion.

PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania state trooper who shot an unarmed 12-year-old boy, triggering a $12.5 million legal settlement, is now being for allegedly roughing up a man and breaking his ankle.Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Strothers, of Pittsburgh, claims Trooper Samuel Nassan assaulted him outside a city bar on July 6. Strothers claims city police broke up a fight between Strothers and a woman when Nassan intervened, handcuffed him and threw him to the ground.Strothers is appealing public drunkenness and disorderly conduct citations in the incident.

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