SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A jury has found the manager of a local Taco Bell guilty of killing an employee.
The deadly shooting of Dorian Carver at a Taco Bell on Cochran Road in Scott Township happened in 2022. On Tuesday, Zairyre Simmons was found guilty of first-degree murder.
As Channel 11 previously reported, Carver and Simmons got into an argument over a “write up.” Carver left the fast food restaurant and drove to a nearby Northwestern Mutual Bank to make a phone call. Simmons followed Carver and shot him multiple times.
We spoke with Carver’s family members today, who sat through the trial and relived all the emotions of his death.
“The verdict was justice. It was the right verdict. In that courtroom, that boy, told nothing but lies. He lied and then he never showed one ounce of remorse for killing my son,” said Carmella Wilson, Carver’s mother.
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“They tried to make my grandson sound like he was a bad human being. He was nothing like that. He was trying to get away from all that. He chased him down and he shot him. So he got what he deserved,” said Shirley Wilson, Carver’s grandmother.
Simmons is scheduled to be sentenced in May.
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