The fate of the fourth sibling to be tried for the shooting death of a 25-year-old Vicksburg man was placed in the hands of a Warren County Circuit Court jury today.

Alonzo Trevillion, 37, has been on trial since Monday, charged with the June 17, 2007, killing of Justin Maurice Harris at his home at 1224 Grammar Street.

Three of Trevillion’s brothers — Anthony Trevillion, Armond Trevillion and Matthew Nash — have already been found guilty of killing Harris and are serving life sentences with the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Defense attorney Louis Field would not say at the close of court Tuesday if his client would testify in his own defense.

The brothers and a fifth man, Rufus Armstrong, reportedly their cousin, went to Harris’ home around 3 a.m. following an altercation between Anthony Trevillion and Harris at a downtown nightclub earlier that night. They fired nearly 20 rounds from an assault rifle and a shotgun into the home, jurors were told.

Tuesday afternoon, court convened in a school bus for about half an hour when the jury was taken to the scene of the shooting along with officers and officials of the court.

There, jurors and presiding Judge M. James Chaney heard testimony from Sgt. Sandra Williams of the Vicksburg Police Department, who headed the investigation after the shooting. Because of weather, testimony was taken inside the bus.

Alonzo Trevillion has been in the Warren County Jail since his arrest the day after the shooting and was placed in plastic, noiseless shackles and guarded by deputies in the back of the bus during the site visit.

Williams pointed out where Alonzo Trevillion parked his vehicle after driving at least one of his brothers to Grammar Street and how the men crossed a bayou and walked up the hill to the house Harris shared with his brother, Jarvis Bowman.

Returning to the courtroom, Field then conducted a lengthy cross examination of Williams, repeatedly asking questions related to the statements Trevillion made to police the day after the shooting, attempting to get at his role in the chain of events that ended with Harris’ death.

Field said Trevillion claimed to have tried to keep his brothers from going to Grammar Street and shooting Harris.

“In answer to a myriad of questions, a barrage of questions, the answer always was, ‘I told them, don’t go over there. Don’t kill no one and get in trouble,’” Field quoted his client.

Williams said yes, Alonzo Trevillion had said that, but added more than once that despite telling them not to go, he still drove his brothers to the scene. He also waited after he heard the gunfire for them to come back and get in his vehicle before he drove away, she said he stated, taking them across the bridge to Louisiana to a store where Anthony Trevillion bought chips and a Coke.

A second police investigator testified to finding shell casings and projectile fragments from the assault rifle and shotgun in and near the Grammar Street residence, and Bowman testified about the gunfire that night. A neighbor also testified, placing Alonzo Trevillion among the men at the scene.

The jury of six men and six women along with two women alternates was selected Monday. In addition to murder, which can carry a life sentence, Alonzo Trevillion also is being tried on charges of shooting into an occupied dwelling and two counts of aggravated assault. Aiding and abetting the men who pulled the trigger makes him criminally liable, Assistant District Attorney Dewey Arthur told the jury.

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