City man is killed after fight downtown|[06/18/07]

Published 12:00 am Monday, June 18, 2007

A disagreement that began at a downtown nightclub escalated into predawn gunfire in the 1200 block of Grammar Street Sunday morning, police said, leaving a Vicksburg man dead in the city’s third homicide this year.

Justin Maurice Harris, 25, 1224 Grammar St., was returning home at 3:19 a.m. when multiple shots were fired, one of which struck him in the left side, Vicksburg Police Capt. Mark Culbertson said.

Charged late Sunday were Matthew Ladale Nash, 28, 1312 China St., Anthony Lydell Trevillion, 30, 1319 China St., and Alonzo Leemont Trevillion, 34, 530 Fairground St. The three are brothers, Culbertson said, and each was charged with murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling, two counts of attempted aggravated assault and burglary. A fourth brother, Armond Henry Trevillion, 27, who Culbertson said has maintained addresses in Vicksburg and Lorman, surrendered to police this morning at 8:10 and faces the same charges as his brothers.

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No bond is being requested on the murder charge facing the four, with a $300,000 bond set on the other charges.

Additionally, Nash and Anthony Trevillion were charged with felony possession of a firearm as convicted felons, with the latter having a hold on him by Mississippi Department of Corrections. Police also recovered marijuana following the arrest of Alonzo and he faces that charge as well, Culbertson said.

&#8220Evidently, an argument occurred at the club,” Culbertson said, adding it was over a woman. &#8220They went (to the house) to continue something that started” at the nightclub.

Witnesses at the bar, the recently opened New New Orleans Cafe, formerly The Biscuit Company, were also being questioned, Culbertson said.

An autopsy was scheduled for today at the Mississippi Crime Lab in Jackson, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said.

Harris is survived by two brothers and a sister, Jessica Harris, who said her brother was a 2000 graduate of Warren Central High School and was not employed at the time of his death.

The city’s two previous homicides this year were the May 5 stabbing death of William Mayer outside the Waffle House on East Clay Street and the May 27 shooting of William Wade on Bowmar Avenue. Prosecutions are pending in both of those cases.