Parents of slain cop to hold mayor’s Bible

Parents of slain cop to hold mayor’s Bible

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The parents of a Pittsburgh police officer slain nearly five years ago will be holding the Bible when Mayor Bill Peduto is sworn into office.

Peduto invited Sue and Max Sciullo to participate in today’s inauguration, which has been moved indoors to Heinz Hall because of temperatures that are forecast to begin dropping precipitously about the time the ceremony begins. The inauguration begins at noon with Peduto’s swearing in set for 1 p.m.

Sciullo, and officers Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly were fatally shot responding to a dispute between Richard Poplawski and his mother on April 4, 2009. Poplawski is on death row for the killings.

Peduto has attended an annual memorial service for the slain officers and says the Sciullos are friends he looks at like his own parents.