The preliminary hearing for two men accused in the shooting death of McComb High School student Dominic McCoy has been delayed a week.
City Judge Jwon Nathaniel granted a continuance Wednesday for Jessie Gray and Wayne Nobles III, who have been charged with murder. They remained jailed on $750,000 bond. Their hearings will be held 1 p.m. Aug. 3.
McCoy was shot on the corner of Burke and White streets on July 15. His funeral was held last Friday in the McComb High School gym, where he played basketball for the Tigers.
Attorney Bill Goodwin is representing Gray and Ronnie Whittington is representing Nobles. Ben Rowley is the prosecutor.
Theirs isn’t the only notable preliminary hearing scheduled for next Wednesday. Also going before the judge is Johnny Granger, 30, who has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault in connection with a shooting that wounded three people on July 16. Granger posted $500,000 bond to be released.
One of the victims was his brother, whom Granger is not accused of shooting. He was wounded a second time that night a couple of hours later after he was released from the hospital and someone opened fire on the car in which he was a passenger.
That gunfire killed the driver, Shamarkese Smith, 29, and wounded her 13-year-old daughter. No one has been charged in that shooting.
