LANCASTER — The trial of the man charged with the fatal shooting of the mother of the his two children in a Berlin apartment last year began on Monday.
The March 1, 2024, incident triggered an Amber alert after Dustin Duren, the man accused of murder in the shooting, took the couple's two children and drove away from his Berlin apartment.
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