Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Trial starting for man charged with hotel killing.

Courtesy WALB News

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A man accused of gunning down a car salesman during an August 2008 armed robbery in a hotel parking lot is expected to stand trial this week.

Gwinnett County authorities charged Christopher Avery Brown of Jonesboro with murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault after the shooting of 50-year-old Robert Lovelace at a Holiday Inn near Stone Mountain. Police say Brown robbed Lovelace before opening fire on him.

Brown was on the run until last year when he was arrested by U.S. Marshals in New York.

A woman, Charlotte Lynne McDaniel, was arrested in December 2008 and accused of providing the shooter a getaway car in order to traffic cocaine.

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