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Mount Tabor High School shooter pleads guilty, sentenced to more than 20 years

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Amy Diaz, FOX8 WGHP

Published March 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM EDT

The teenager who fatally shot a classmate at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem in 2021 pled guilty today.

According to FOX 8, Maurice Evans Jr. was sentenced by a judge to 22.5 years in prison.

Evans shot and killed William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. on Sept. 1, 2021, on school campus. Miller died from his injuries that day in the hospital.

Both students were 15 years old at the time. Evans was charged with one count of murder and tried as an adult.

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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Mount Tabor High School shooter pleads guilty, sentenced to more than 20 years

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