Triple murder defendant jumps off court balcony, dies

[dlevere]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -

A triple murder defendant jumped to his death from a fourth-floor balcony in an Ohio county courthouse Monday, CBS Youngstown affiliate WKBN reports.

Robert Seman landed in the courthouse rotunda. A sheet was put over his body.

Seman was accused of setting a house in the northeastern Ohio city of Youngstown on fire in March 2015, killing 10 year old Corinne Gump and her grandparents, Bill and Judy Schmidt. Seman set the home alight because Gump planned to testify against him in a rape case, according to prosecutors.

The trial was scheduled for next week, and Seman was in the courthouse for a status hearing ahead of the trial.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-s...house-balcony/

[soprano1]

Would he potentially get the death penalty or a life sentence for the crime he was accused of?

[dlevere]

Would he potentially get the death penalty or a life sentence for the crime he was accused of?

Death plus he would have gotten his ass kicked in jail

[soprano1]

Death plus he would have gotten his ass kicked in jail

I see, maybe that could explain his suicide. Or not...

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Well...he gave HIMSELF the death penalty, so it saved the courts from having to deal it out.