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Charges upped to capital murder for veteran who shot 11-year-old boy in Alabama turkey-hunting accident

 

A grand jury has upgraded charges against an Alabama veteran and former middle school teacher whose bullet fatally pierced an 11-year-old boy last May during a turkey hunt.

 

Joshua Stewart Burks, 36, of Mobile, ,had initially been charged with reckless manslaughter, but the charge was upgraded to capital murder of a person under the age of 14 in the death of Troy Ellis.

 

Burks was rearrested and posted $60,000 bond for his release on Friday, WPMI said. He had been out on $15,000 bond from the earlier charge, Al.com reported.

 

The Cahaba Elementary School fifth grader died on May 1 in the shooting, and his father, high school football coach Obed Ellis, was wounded. The two were with Burks, who had served in the Marines, and another man during an event put on by a group, America’s Heroes Enjoying Recreation Outdoors, that organizes hunts for wounded veterans like Burks, who had never before hunted. The shooting occurred at around 9:30 a.m., Al.com reported at the time.

 

A lawsuit filed by the family against Burks, the group and hunting guide Kyle Eugene Henley had alleged that Burks had taken numerous pain pills the night before the hunt, Al.com reported. This rendered him “likely not capable of safely handling a firearm, and [he] certainly was not capable of making appropriate decisions with regard to handling a weapon,” said the suit, which was settled in October, according to Al.com.

 

“We are disappointed the grand jury saw the case differently than the magistrate and the district attorney’s office that originally charged the case as manslaughter,” Tommy Spina, Burks' attorney, told Al.com about the new charges. “The events that occurred that day were devastating on many levels, and our sympathies are with the family of the young man that lost his life in what we believe was a tragic hunting accident.”

 

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Alabama poultry worker dies after coworker shoots at chickens

 

A man was shot and killed at a southern Alabama chicken house on Sunday after one of his coworkers fired at stray birds, according to a local report.

 

The Covington County Sheriff’s Department identified the victim as Robin Early Phillips the Alabama Media Group reported.

 

Phillips, 51, was working to remove dead chickens beneath the poultry house’s subfloor at the time of the shooting, the news outlet reported.

 

No charges were filed, according to the Alabama Media Group.

 

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