Judge: Distant jury likely for 8 killings in Mississippi
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A judge says jurors will probably have to be chosen from another part of the state for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people in south Mississippi.
The Clarion Ledger reports Willie Cory Godbolt appeared Thursday before Lincoln County Circuit Judge David Strong in a hearing to update the status of the case.
No trial date has been set.
Godbolt has been jailed without bond since his May 28 arrest, hours after the killings in and around Brookhaven.
Deputy William Durr responded to a disturbance at the home of Godbolt's in-laws. Durr, Godbolt's mother-in-law and two others were killed there.
Two people were killed at a second home. Two others were killed at a third home.