ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - Four jurors have been chosen to serve in the murder trial of a man accused of killing eight people in 2008.
Nicholas Sheley already is serving two life terms in two slayings in Illinois. The Daily Gazette in Sterling reports (https://bit.ly/1luZcNU ) that four jurors were chosen Tuesday for Sheley’s next trial on charges he killed four others. Proceedings are to continue in Rock Island on Wednesday.
The 34-year-old Sterling man is charged in the beating deaths of 29-year-old Brock Branson; his fiancee, 20-year-old Kilynna Blake; her 2-year-old son, Dayan; and 25-year-old Kenneth Ulve. They were killed in the apartment in a Rock Falls they all shared.
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Sheley has pleaded not guilty.
Sheley still faces trial in the deaths of an Arkansas couple found dead in Missouri.
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Information from: The Daily Gazette, https://www.saukvalley.com
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