Bradford businessman Stephen Stidd is in McKean County Jail, arraigned Tuesday morning on one count of homicide for the 2015 shooting death of Melvin Bizzarro behind Togi’s Restaurant on East Main Street.
The charges were filed by the state attorney general’s office, who took over the case after earlier charges were dismissed by District Judge Dom Cercone in 2015.
Stidd, 64, is being held without bail on the charge.
Bizzarro, who was Stidd’s son-in-law, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest around 9:30 a.m. Jan. 16, 2015, in the rear parking lot of Togi’s Restaurant, allegedly following an argument with Stidd.
Bizzarro at one time had owned Togi’s Restaurant with his wife, Michelle Stidd Bizzarro.
A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for 10 a.m. April 26 before District Judge David Engman in Kane, who was assigned to the case by Senior Judge John Cleland in August 2016.
