A jury was seated late Monday afternoon in the trial of three young men accused in the slaying of a Fulton High School football player posthumously labeled a hero after friends say he died shielding two girls from a hail of bullets.
A jury of six men and six women – all white except for one man and one woman – was tapped Monday in Knox County Criminal Court in the trial of Christopher Drone Bassett, 22; Richard Gregory Williams III, 23; and Kipling Colbert Jr., 22, in the December 2015 shooting death of 15-year-old Zaevion Dobson.
Dobson was gathered with friends outside a home in Lonsdale when at least two carloads of young men arrived and gunfire ensued. Dobson’s friends told authorities he was fatally shot as he tried to shield two girls.
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