Chattanooga police investigate the killing of Timothy Harris on Olive Street.The charges against a Chattanooga man accused of shooting his girlfriend’s 47-year-old stepfather to death on Halloween will go to a grand jury.
After listening to a two-and-a-half-hour preliminary hearing Tuesday in the case of Cordarius Robinson, Hamilton County Judge Gary Starnes came to his decision: “The facts from these witnesses seem to indicate cold-blooded murder.
Cordarius Robinson“It clearly, in my opinion, meets a first-degree murder [standard],” he continued, before raising the bond on Robinson’s criminal homicide charge from $25,000 to $150,000. “I understand that was disputed and will be disputed upstairs.”
Robinson’s attorney, Lloyd Levitt, said the family did not wish to comment on the outcome. Tuesday’s witness testimony was scattered, he said, and no evidence identified Robinson as the shooter.
Prosecutors say Robinson, 24, fired multiple shots at his girlfriend’s stepfather, Timothy Harris, after the couple got into a fight outside of Harris’ house on Olive Street. In the minutes leading up to the gunfire, neighbors said, they saw a woman and a man sitting outside the house in a Jeep. One neighbor, Sean Anderson, said Tuesday he heard the woman screaming for help because someone was choking her. Then Harris came outside, cursing and screaming several times, “you shouldn’t have brought him here,” Anderson said.