All charges held for court in Gilpin Township homicide
Following a nearly two-and-a-half-hour preliminary hearing, charges including homicide and aggravated assault were held for court in the death of 79-year-old Rosalind Cooper.
Magisterial District Judge James Andring bound over all charges, including homicide and aggravated assault, against Mengqi Zang to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County after a nearly two-and-a-half-hour preliminary hearing. Zang is accused of stabbing and killing her 79-year-old mother-in-law, Rosalind Cooper, at Cooper’s Gilpin Township home on June 28; family members, investigators and Armstrong County Coroner Brian Myers testified for the Commonwealth, with First Assistant Jordan Buzza handling the hearing.