A Tennessee man charged with killing 4 members of the identical household and kidnapping a child earlier than eluding authorities for every week is scheduled Monday to make his first courtroom look since he was indicted.
Austin Robert Drummond is predicted to seem earlier than a choose for a day arraignment in circuit courtroom in Lake County, positioned in rural northwest Tennessee.
A grand jury indicted Drummond on Nov. 10 on expenses together with first-degree homicide and aggravated kidnapping within the July 29 shootings.
Drummond had pleaded not responsible in a decrease courtroom earlier than a choose dominated there was sufficient proof for his case to proceed to the grand jury.
Drummond is accused of the deaths of the mother and father, grandmother, and uncle of an toddler discovered deserted in a house’s entrance yard in rural west Tennessee.
A weeklong search for Drummond ended on Aug. 5 in Jackson, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southeast of the placement of the killings in Tiptonville.
Prosecutors have stated they plan to hunt the demise penalty if Drummond is convicted of first-degree homicide at trial.
An FBI agent testified at a listening to in September that information from a cellphone utilized by Drummond confirmed he was within the neighborhood of a wooded space the place the our bodies have been discovered with gunshot wounds and coated by tarpaulins.
However Drummond’s legal professional, Bryan Huffman, argued that there was no proof introduced throughout the listening to that confirmed Drummond really shot any of the victims.
On the day of the shootings, officers responded to a name of an toddler in a automobile seat being dropped off at a “random particular person’s entrance yard” roughly 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Tiptonville, the Dyer County Sheriff’s Workplace has stated.
Then, investigators in neighboring Lake County reported 4 folks had been discovered useless from gunshot wounds in Tiptonville.
They have been recognized because the child’s mother and father, James M. Wilson, 21, and Adrianna Williams, 20; Williams’ brother, Braydon Williams, 15; and their mom, Cortney Rose, 38.
Drummond’s girlfriend is the sister of the toddler’s grandmother, in accordance with Lake County District Legal professional Danny Goodman.
In all, 5 folks have been charged with being equipment after the very fact within the case.
Drummond has served jail time for robbing a comfort retailer and threatening to go after jurors.
He was additionally charged with the tried homicide of a jail guard whereas behind bars, and he was out on bond on the time of the killings, Goodman has stated.
With a inhabitants of about 3,400 folks, Tiptonville is about 120 miles (195 kilometers) north of Memphis, close to the Mississippi River and scenic Reelfoot Lake.
