After eight previous postponements, Ray Shetler Jr. is scheduled for trial tomorrow in the Westmoreland County courtroom of Judge Meghan Bilik-DeFazio.
Shetler is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and single counts of resisting arrest and attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer. He was found in December of 2021 hiding in his girlfriend’s mobile home outside of Seward after he skipped a probation hearing. He brawled with police officers and sheriff’s deputies and seriously injured one of them, while suffering injuries himself when he was struck in the eye with a stun gun.
Shetler has claimed he was attacked by police in retaliation for his acquittal on murder charges after he gunned down St. Clair Township police officer Lloyd Reed Jr. in 2015. A jury found him not guilty of murder, but guilty of charges related to his escape attempt after the shooting.
