Cell phone pings from the other three murder suspects, shantai shelton, daniel mathis, and travis bell, also apparently led police to the spot in Louisa County where they discovered quicks stolen toyota rav4. Now of course, this is just part of the evidence the defense is going to need to refute. The prosecution has previously brought forward experts from the state crime lab that said fingerprints inside that car matched all four suspects. It has also called forward one witness, leslie casterlow, who said she directly heard the suspects discussing quicks murder, and another witness, jamar rice, who says he heard about the murder through the suspects close acquaintance anthony stokes, who is charged separately with rackateering and obstruction of justice. The picture the prosecution has painted up to this point is one of a gang killing, claiming all of the suspects are members of the 99 goon syndicate. Each one of the defendants has their own attorney, and it several days of trial to ch
Wsls 10s Bethany Teague was in the courtroom all day into late this evening. And has more on whats next in this case. A Pulaski County judge grants the change of venue request for ashley white, but her trial will still happen in Pulaski County. Vo after an hour and a half of consideration, judge Bradley Finch decided there was too much prejudice in Pulaski County to give white a fair trial. He said 60 percent of the potential jurors were disqualified, and that is quote an extremely large percentage for any jury trial. Then, the prosecution immediately withdrew its request for a jury trial, which it made last year, and requested a bench trial. The defense ultimately agreed with that. At just after 8 30 tuesday night, it was determined that judge finch will decide the bench trial will begin thursday morning at 9 oclock. The prosecution says it believes facts are facts, that judge finch will give both sides a fair trial, and that holding a jury trial in a different place would likely cost
Were not worried about snow right now. But we are in store for cold temperatures. Storm team ten chief meteorologist Jeff Haniewich joins us now. Jeff. It was pretty chilly today. And its only going to get colder. Well, it was another cold day across the region with temperatures mainly in the 20s and 30s. The winds picked up as expected too. We continued to see some mountain flurries light snow showers, with a little more sun farther east. The pattern does not look to change a whole lot through wednesday. Tonight mostly cloudy with light mountain snow showers still possible, blustery with lows in the lower 20s. Wednesday clouds west, more sun east with mountain snow showers hanging tough. Bluster y still with highs in the lower 30s. Thursday will see a mix of sun and clouds areawide. And it looks to be a dry day for everyone. It will remain cold and blustery though with highs only in the upper 20s. Friday will be partly sunny and not quite as cold with highs actually look to stay eleva
With highs in the middle 40s friday sun clouds with highs in the upper 40s lower 50s saturday sun clouds with highs in the lower 60s sunday isolated showers possible with highs in the lower 60s monday scattered showers possible with highs in the low to middle 50s time now for your timesaver widespread Power Outages continues to be a big concern across southWest Virginia this morning. It could take three to four days before all power is restored. Right now. The ice brought trees and powerlines down. At one point close to 50 thousand appalachian power customers lost service. Crews are working around the clock to turn the lights and heat back on but they say rural areas and secondary neighborhoods make take longer than others. Kenney boone apco depends on the situation. If it is just a wire down then we have to isolate it. Take the switch off and isolate it. If you can get a bucket truck to it, it is a real easy fix. If you have to get into back yards and climb a pole it takes longer appa
Plus. The man accused of going on a shooting rampage in michigan. Appears in court. And. The Radford Police department receives thousands of dollars to upgrade its equipment. How the money will be used to help keep the community safe. Good evening, and thanks for joining us for wsls 10 at seven. Im lindsey ward. And im dawn jefferies. A roanoke man charged in connection with a double murder changes his stance midtrial. Demetrius wade is facing murder and firearms charges involving the deaths of ronald ramey and lenard hamlett. January 2015 in shenandoah avenue. Wade initially pleaded not guilty to his charges. But changed his mind this afternoon and pleaded no contest. Wsls 10s ananda rochita has more. Ananda rochita roanok e prosecutors talked about some of the evidence they wouldve presented today like witness testimonies. Witnesses say wade was angry when someone hit him in the head that night and then he started firing. Evidence he was firing at someone specifically they were quote