Jury Can't Decide if Diegdio Should Face Death Penalty or Life in Murder of Littrell Parker in Beaver Falls in 2020

(Photo provided by Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier at the time of Joshua Diegdio’s arrest)

Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent

(Beaver, Pa.) Last Friday, March 4, 2022 at 2 p.m. Beaver County District Attorney David J. Lozier announced that the jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision on whether Joshua L. Diegdio should face the death penalty or if he should spend the rest of his life in jail. Because of the hung jury in the penalty phase by law he will be sentenced to life in prison after he faces other charges that led to the death of Latrell Parker. Diegdio along with Patrick Haynes are accused of a home invasion that occurred on September 5, 2020 in a 5th Avenue Apartment in Beaver Falls. He is charged with , drug charges and robbery in the murder of Parker . He also shot Parker’s girlfriend Alessandra Briggs.

Diegdio will be sentenced to life in prison without parole at a later date on all charges., according to Lozier.