According to the Blair County District Attorney’s office, the trial has been delayed for an Altoona man charged in the smothering death of a 16-month-old girl in 2018.
The trial for Drue Burd, now age 23, was scheduled to begin next month. Burd is charged with criminal homicide in the May 2018 death of 16-month-old Angela Beard. His defense has previously argued that the death penalty should not be sought against him, citing a psychiatrist’s conclusion that he was only 19 at the time of the crime and had the brain development of a juvenile.