LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A Jackson County decide on Thursday ordered Antonio Inexperienced to face trial on upgraded fees within the lethal taking pictures of 18-year-old Mia Sims, sending the case to circuit court docket.
Throughout a preliminary examination earlier than District Choose Robert Gaecke, a number of witnesses testified a few taking pictures within the Metropolis of Jackson that resulted in Sims’ demise. Following the testimony, Prosecuting Lawyer Kelsey A. Guernsey requested to raise the case from second-degree homicide to open homicide, which permits a decide or jury to contemplate first- or second-degree homicide. Choose Gaecke authorised the request.
Inexperienced was arrested in Fresno, California, by Jackson Police Division detectives working with the Michigan State Police Fugitive Staff and later extradited to Michigan, authorities stated.
Along with open homicide, Inexperienced is charged with discharging a firearm in or at a constructing inflicting demise, and felony firearm. The lead cost carries a most penalty of life with out parole within the Michigan Division of Corrections.
“I am grateful that witnesses chose to come forward and testify in court today,” Guernsey stated in a press release. “Too much of the violence in our community goes unreported to law enforcement. I appreciate that those that had information provided it so that we at the Prosecutor’s Office can seek justice for the victim in this case.”
On July 27, Sims was shot within the neck outdoors of United Peoples Church. She died on the hospital.
Mia Sims.
The case has been assigned to Circuit Choose Susan B. Jordan.
