Warren County trial opens in shooting that locked down area

Prospective jurors are being seated this morning in the trial of Mohammed Laghaoui, the man charged in an active shooter incident last June in Warren County.

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Laghaoui, now 20, is accused of wounding his father and a sheriff’s deputy and shooting at another resident of the apartment complex and into a neighbor’s apartment before fleeing the scene.

Once the jury is selected, they are to be taken to the scene of the shooting at the Orchards of Landen.

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The trial is expected to run all week in Judge Timothy Tepe’s court.

Laghaoui is accused of shooting Warren County Sheriff’s Deputy Katie Barnes, who had responded to a domestic call earlier, then was sent back to the scene after Laghaoui reportedly wounded his father.

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