A judge has postponed a decision on whether to further delay Wayne Burgarello's murder trial after his lawyer reported the 73-year-old Sparks man who killed an unarmed trespasser has suffered another stroke.
Defense attorney Theresa Ristenpart told Washoe District Judge Patrick Flanagan on Friday they are awaiting a doctor's report on the stroke that occurred while Burgarello was in jail or shortly after he was released on $150,000 bail in November.
The former school teacher already had suffered a heart attack and two strokes before he was arrested in last year's fatal shooting of Cody Devine and wounding of Janai Wilson inside a vacant, rundown duplex Burgarello owns.
Flanagan has scheduled another status hearing April 10 to determine whether they'll have to push back the trial set to begin May 18. Â (AP)
