The man charged in the February shooting death of 24-year-old UTC student Mohammad Sharifi will go to trial next spring.
Chattanooga police say Sharifi was trying to sell his Xbox One gaming system to D’Marcus White, 21, when White shot and killed him in the parking lot of a Hixson Pike apartment complex at 12:18 p.m. on Feb. 19.
White was arrested the same day, shortly after police say he shared a local news article about the attack on Facebook with a series of laughing emojis above it. He had been on probation for a 2018 assault case.
Sharifi was supposed to get married two weeks later. But instead, the day after they were to be wed, his fiancee found herself walking up a rain-saturated hill to her would-be husband’s grave at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in the outskirts of Nashville.
Without a cloud in sight and surrounded by their families, Sara Baluch knelt by his grave and began to weep.