Update

Appomattox shootings suspect's trial set for June 2012

APPOMATTOX, VA -- A June 11, 2012, trial date has been set for a man accused of killing eight people in Appomattox.

Prosecutor Darrel Puckett said Friday that Circuit Judge Joel C. Cunningham allotted up to three weeks for Christopher Speight's capital murder trial. Speight will be tried by jury.

Speight is charged with three counts of capital murder. He was arrested after an overnight manhunt near the home he shared with his sister, her husband and their two children. Those family members, two neighbors, their teenage daughter and a teenage boy were killed in the shootings.

A judge in December declared Speight mentally fit to stand trial after reviewing a report from Central State Hospital. The former security guard remains in jail pending trial.
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