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Trial for Gilmer Murder Suspect to Begin Monday

Posted/updated on: April 13, 2015 at 3:32 pm
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ajohnUPSHUR COUNTY — Jury selection and trial for an East Texas man accused of murder has been scheduled to begin today. Jonathan Ray Shepherd, 34, has been accused of fatally shooting Cheyenne Green in the parking lot of the Gilmer Buckeye Stadium during a football game September 26, 2013. Shepherd reportedly met Green in the parking lot during halftime of a football game to give their then two-year-old child to her. A witness told police the couple was arguing about custody of the child. According to KETK, sometime after the argument, Shepherd called his wife, Suzanne Bates, and told her he had done “something bad and he couldn’t take it anymore and that she was dead.”

Shepherd then told Bates to go to the parking lot, where she would find the victim’s car running and his son in the backseat, according to the affidavit. Bates went to the parking lot, where she found the boy in the car and saw Green lying in blood. The official autopsy stated Green has been shot three times. The suspect was initially charged with murder, but the charge was upgraded to capital murder by terror threat or other felony after Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd stated evidence showed Shepherd was attempting to kidnap Green when he reportedly killed her.

Since the charge of capital murder was implemented, Shepherd faces up to life in prison or the death penalty. He remains in the Upshur County Jail on $1 million bond.



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