CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – A case about domestic violence.
That is how Clarion County District Attorney Mark Aaron frames the third-degree murder conviction he got against Damien Ditz on charges Ditz shot his girlfriend, Katrina Seaburn, in the early evening hours of March 1, 2017, in the parking area of a trailer park in the Lake Lucy area of Washington Township, Clarion County.
“I think it (the case) is an indication that we will take domestic violence seriously,” Aaron said. “Even though this was a tough case, when necessary, we will go to the wall and end up here in court if we have to. We will strive to get justice in these domestic cases.”
Aaron knows that only one person will ever really know what happened in Seaburn’s car, which Ditz was driving, in the early evening hours of the night of Seaburn’s death.
“I would classify it as a tough (case) because only one person knows what 100 percent happened inside that car,” Aaron said. “It’s the defendant.”
What is known about the case is that Seaburn, a 22-year old Clarion University senior from Curwensville who was just over two months from graduation, was shot to death by a 45-caliber Glock in possession of Damien Ditz. Ditz was found guilty of shooting her with malice (thus, the murder charge as opposed to a manslaughter conviction) by a jury over seven women and five men after a week-long trial at the Clarion County Courthouse that wrapped up o Friday, December 7, 2018.