Courtroom drama: Brother confronts victims’ families after Pennsylvania man convicted in flex-tie killings

Courtroom drama: Brother confronts victims’ families after Pennsylvania man convicted in flex-tie killings

His brother reportedly approached the victims' families as they boarded the elevator in the courthouse and made a gesture as if to suggest he would be watching them, prompting his arrest.

After a second day of deliberations, a Pennsylvania man has been found guilty of first-degree murder after bodies were found buried in his yard — and his brother was so emotional that he was arrested in the courtroom hallway.

Hugo Selenski was stoic after the jury forewoman read off the guilty verdicts, leaning forward on the defense table and resting his arms, according to a TimesLeader.com report.

He was found guilty of strangling to death Tammy Lynn Fassett and Michael J. Kerkowski with flex ties. The family members of the victims hugged each other and smiled as the judge excused the jury and recessed the proceedings, according to the report, while Selenski family cried on the other side of the courtroom.

As family members of the victims were getting on the courthouse elevator with the prosecution team, the defendant’s brother, Ronald Selenski, approached the elevator, standing just feet from the doors as they stood open, pointing first to his own eyes and then to someone inside the elevator as if to say “I’ll be watching you,” the report stated.

A detective on the elevator yelled at him to “get the hell out of here,” and sheriff’s deputies grabbed Ronald Selenski by the arms and handcuffed him.

Hugo Selenski himself was silent as he was led down the hallway to the courthouse basement, telling the media that he would “talk to you when this is over.”

Authorities alleged that he used plastic ties to strangle a pharmacist and his girlfriend in 2002 and then bury them in his yard, apparently as part of a plot to steal tens of thousands of dollars from an illegal prescription drug ring. A total of five bodies were discovered in his yard back in 2003, although prosecutors couldn’t get homicide charges to stick in two cases before this one.

Selenski could face the death penalty with this conviction.

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