Trial To Open In Armored Car Murder Case

PHILADELPHIA - The murder trial for a man accused of killing two armored car guards in 2007 is set to begin in Philadelphia.

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday in the trial of 38-year-old Mustafa Ali. He is accused of killing a pair of retired Philadelphia police officers outside a Northeast Philadelphia bank on Oct. 4, 2007.

Sixty-five-year-old William Widmaier and 54-year-old Joseph Alullo were killed in the shooting. A third guard received minor injuries.

Police say Ali confessed to the shooting and led them to the murder weapons following his arrest.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have been placed under a gag order by the judge in the case.

Ali, formerly Shawn Steele, was convicted of robbing five banks in Philadelphia in the early 1990s.