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Teen Charged In Fatal Mount Tabor Shooting Will Be Tried As An Adult

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published September 30, 2021 at 3:57 PM EDT
The community mourned the death of William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. during a prayer vigil at Mount Tabor United Methodist Church the day after he was shot at school. KERI BROWN/WFDD

The teen charged in connection with a shooting death at Mount Tabor High School will be tried as an adult. 

Fifteen-year-old Maurice Evans Jr. has been indicted for murder in connection with the death of William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. 

Miller, also 15, died after being shot at Mount Tabor September 1. Both were students at the school.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about the details of the case. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that District Attorney Jim O'Neill has said in juvenile court proceedings that the shooting was the result of a summer-long dispute.

Evans' attorney, J. D. Byers, asked that he be released to his parents' custody with an ankle bracelet to keep track of his whereabouts. 

But a Forsyth County judge ordered Evans to be held in a juvenile detention center without bond.
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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