DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Almost seven years after the shooting deaths of three Danville residents the final defendant in the case is now on trial.
Jury selection was scheduled to start Tuesday for 29-year-old Jerome Harris of Danville.
Harris is charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the March 2007 deaths of 30-year-old Rodney Pepper, 21-year-old TaBreyon McCullough and 19-year-old Madisen Leverenz. Pepper was found shot to death outside an apartment and the two women were found inside.
Evidence presented against another man convicted in the deaths indicated the three were killed over the theft of cocaine and money.
That man, 35-year-old Freddell Bryant of Chicago, was convicted in 2013 of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Harris is serving a 25-year sentence in state prison for drug-related crimes.
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