Commonwealth v. Baker

OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

Appellant and two accomplices, Eric Joseph and Mark Mitchell, each nineteen years of age, robbed the Metro Oil Company in Philadelphia in February, 1984. On entering the company’s premises, the armed actors seized two employees, Adrian Crosby and Thomas Dolan. Mark Mitchell alone was wearing a ski mask. Appellant and Joseph proceeded to a second floor room with Dolan in front of them at gunpoint in order to open a safe. The company’s owner, William Gambrell, was sitting in his second-floor office where Appellant *546fatally shot him twice. Unable to open the…