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Trial Under Way In Herrin Apartment Killing
MARION, Ill. (AP) -- Jury selection is under way in southern Illinois for one of four men accused in the shooting death of a man last year in Herrin.

Twenty-one-year-old Travius Tucker of Fairview Heights is charged in Williamson County with first-degree murder in the death of Jamel Davis of Herrin.

A Herrin police detective contends witnesses told him that a co-defendant and another armed suspect entered Davis' apartment and demanded money, and that Davis was shot in the chest during a struggle.

The investigator says the suspects fled to East St. Louis, where the gun was thrown into the Mississippi River.

The Southern Illinois reports that opening statements in the trial in Marion are expected Thursday.

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