PITTSBURGH —

A former Taco Bell manager from Scott Township who was convicted of fatally shooting his employee was granted a new trial and is now filing a double jeopardy motion.

Zairyre Simmons was found guilty of first-degree murder back in February. Advertisement

According to court documents and witness testimony in court, Simmons and the victim, Dorian Carver, got into an altercation at work.

When Carver left Taco Bell, Simmons followed him down Cochran Road in Scott Township and into the lobby of an insurance business. That’s where he shot Carver twice, killing him.

“This is somebody that went to work and got murdered. This could have been your son. This just happened to be my child. This could have been anybody's child. How do you go to work and get murdered by your manager? Yo

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