Grevious is also charged with felonious assault and having weapons under disability for violence at the bar.
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After the Doubles Bar shooting, Grevious recruited Zachary Harris to kill Orlando Gilbert for $5,000, according to prosecutors.
Here's what defense attorneys and the prosecution told jurors this morning during opening statements:
Brad Burress, Butler County assistant prosecutor:
We are here today because this defendant (Grevious) solicited others to hunt down Orlando Gilbert, Burress says., "Orlando Gilbert that day was the victim of a paid hit." @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Shooting happened in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. Bystanders tried to render aid to the men. @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Two days after the Doubles Bar shooting, Grevious made a call from jail
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Implicating a call to get people from Columbus to come to Hamilton for the hit, according to Burress. @journalnews
They drove around to may places, including Joyce Park where Gilbert was coaching little league football, Burress says @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
"But there were to many people in Joyce Park to get the job done," Burress says. Followed him to LaRosas for a birthday party with his mother. They lost him in the dark. @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Defense attorney David Washington:
Defense attorney David Washington is now giving opening statements. Washington says Grevious was not on the other end of the phone when talking with Harris, @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Washington, the crime was sickening. "But Michael Grevious did not pay anybody." @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
No evidence that Michael Grevious was involved with death of Gilbert @journalnews
— Lauren Pack (@LPackJN) April 18, 2018
Seven others, including three also charged with a capital offense, have all had their cases heard and are serving prison sentences.
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