PENNSYLVANIA
Post-Gazette
By Michael A. Fuoco and Ann Rodgers-Melnick, Post-Gazette Staff Writers
A Catholic priest was arrested yesterday on charges he contributed to the death of University of Pittsburgh football player Billy Gaines from a 25-foot fall by furnishing alcohol to the wide receiver and five other underage teammates during a June cookout and party at a Homestead church.
The Rev. Henry Krawczyk, 50, surrendered to authorities yesterday morning at the Allegheny County coroner’s office, where he was arraigned on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree misdemeanor. Later, he was arraigned by Munhall District Justice Thomas Torkowsky on six counts of furnishing alcohol to minors and a single count of reckless endangerment.
Krawczyk was released on his own recognizance pending a Sept. 8 preliminary hearing.
In announcing the arrest, Allegheny County Police Superintendent Kenneth Fulton said he was doing so “with mixed emotions.”
