Man on trial over baseball attack

Members of Natasha McShane’s family made a brief appearance at a Chicago court houses ahead of jury selection in the trial of Heriberto Viramontes.

The young Armagh woman’s father, Liam, mother, Sheila, and two siblings arrived at the Cook County Criminal Court building at around 8.30am, but left without explanation an hour later.

They did not return for jury selection, where 12 jurors and three alternates, were picked from a pool of dozens who appeared before Judge Jorge Alonso in Court Room 604.