New attorney for accused Pine Hills gunman gets time to review evidence before trial set
The recently appointed attorney representing Keith Moses, accused of fatally shooting three people in Pine Hills last year, will get four months to review evidence and conduct depositions before a judge decides on a date to schedule the trial.
Moses watched on from the jury box as his lawyer Ted Marrero told Orange County Circuit Judge Michael Snure he needs time to look over more than 200 gigabytes of evidence in the case and review depositions already taken. Marrero replaced J. Edwin Mills as the 20-year-old’s lead defense attorney earlier this month following a court filing determining Moses could not afford a lawyer.
A hearing to determine Marrero’s progress is set for Sept. 10.
“What I don’t want to do is show up in four or five months and not have made some progress,” Snure said.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Moses in the killings of Nathacha Augustin, 38; T’Yonna Major, 9; and Spectrum News 13 journalist Dylan Lyons during a spate of shootings within hours of each other in February 2023. In January, several court-appointed psychologists deemed Moses mentally competent to face trial after finding he doesn’t have a mental illness that would keep him from understanding the charges against him.
Investigators said Moses killed Augustin after shooting her from the backseat of a car his cousin was driving. Hours later he shot and killed T’Yonna after breaking into her home, where he also shot her mother, they said. Moses then shot and killed Lyons as he sat in a news van before shooting at a cameraman who traveled with the reporter.
In addition to the murder charges, Moses is accused of attempted murder because T’Yonna’s mother and the camera man survived their injuries.
