(Photo of Corbin Blake Partin Courtesy of WPXI/WFMJ/ WPXI/WFMJ)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Castle, PA) A man recently pleaded guilty to shooting and killing both a woman and his uncle in New Castle on July 13th, 2024. According to court documents, thirty-six-year-old Corbin Blake Partin pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder. Police confirm that on July 13th, 2024, Partin killed his uncle, seventy-two-year-old Albert C. Rotz and sixty-six-year-old Rebecca Frank at a home on the 700 block of Arlington Avenue. Frank was also the long-time girlfriend of Rotz. Partin was arrested at the house of his parents on the 1000 block of Beckford Street, where he was staying,  on the same day.  Multiple people that were at a pool party near the house reported hearing that shots got fired after an argument that occurred during that time. Among the witnesses was a woman that was related to the victims who told police that Frank told her, “Corbin shot us.” A separate witness reported spotted Partin walking out of the home and departing the scene in his vehicle following the shooting. According to police, they found a percussion cap consistent with the firing of a black powder or cap and ball weapon at the scene of the crime. The Beckford Street house also had two boxes of black powder and cap and ball weapons found there and police said contents inside one of those boxes did not get accounted for. Rotz died at the site of the scene was and Frank died at a hospital later on at that time. Partin will be in jail for thirty-five-to seventy years. After Partin was arrested on July 13th, 2024, he was held without bond in the Lawrence County Jail.