(Story reported by Curtis Walsh and posted by Noah Haswell, both of Beaver County Radio, Published on Septemebr 16, 2024 at 10:05 A.M.)

(York, PA) After facing charges that he killed his father and stepmother with a sword in their Pennsylvania home almost five years ago, a Pennsylvania man has entered no contest pleas against them. 43-year-old Levar Fountain, who is scheduled for sentencing on November 8, killed both John Fountain, 74, and Mary Fountain, 65, in December of 2019, and at that time, authorities said Fountain told them he was off his schizophrenia medication. Court documents indicate that Fountain entered the pleas to third-degree murder charges in the York County Court earlier this month, avoiding a trial that was to have begun this week. First-degree murder counts that would have carried a mandatory life without parole term were dismissed. Attorneys agreed during the legal proceedings that Fountain doesn’t remember the deaths due to his mental condition at the time.