The office of a district attorney in Tennessee says it will seek to charge a 15-year-old boy as an adult in the murder of the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, the late pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church who was gunned down in a carjacking earlier this week.
The Shelby County District Attorney’s office said in a statement that it’s submitting a notice of intent to transfer the case, which is set on the Juvenile Court docket for a hearing on Aug. 1, to an adult court, as law allows it if the alleged crimes are serious.
The decision is based on “the facts of this case and this offender’s criminal history,” District Attorney Amy Weirich said in the statement, according to WREG.
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