State Asks 1st-Degree Murder Verdict Against Roberts In Downtown Killing; Jury Goes Home For Night

State Asks 1st-Degree Murder Verdict Against Roberts In Downtown Killing; Jury Goes Home For Night

Jury still deliberating verdict in Roberts trial after tense closing arguments

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The jury in the Darryl Roberts trial is currently in the process of deciding his fate. He is charged with first degree murder in the September 2023 shooting death of Christopher Wright, a shooting that Roberts himself testified that he committed last Thursday. The jury called it a day at 6:30 on Monday evening during their deliberations on the Darryl Roberts murder trial. They had gone for approximately three hours as …

Burlington police arrest suspect in 1st-degree murder

Police in Burlington have arrested a man who allegedly pulled the trigger in a fatal shooting that occurred roughly two months ago. Terrance Raphael Evans, Jr. was taken into custody last Wednesday for the first degree murder of 39-year-old Stanley Gillom, who shot along Burlington’s Queen Anne Street on February 19. A 34-year-old black male of 1503 Bowman Avenue in Burlington, Evans was apprehended by the city’s police force roughly a month aft…