The trial of one of the two men accused of firing a gun during last summer's mass shooting at a downtown Little Rock nightclub has been pushed back until September to give the prosecution and defense more time to review the evidence from the shooting that wounded 28 people.
Kentrell Dominque Gwynn, the bodyguard of the rap musician performing when the shooting started, is charged with 10 counts of aggravated assault over accusations that he fired into the crowd at the Power Ultra Lounge on West Sixth Street on July 1 last year.
He's not accused of injuring anyone but rather of brandishing a firearm in a manner that "created a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury." Little Rock police have described the shooting as part of a gang feud in the city.
His trial had been scheduled for the end of next month. The Memphis man, 26, faces up to 75 years in prison.
His court appearance Tuesday before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza came a day after his boss, rap musician Ricky Hampton, pleaded guilty in federal court to a gun charge for carrying an AK-47 style pistol after a performance in Forrest City about a week before his Little Rock concert.
Hampton, of Memphis, is a felon and prohibited from having a gun. His sentencing date has not been scheduled. Hampton performed under the name Finess2Tymes.
The Forrest City shooting occurred after Hampton's June performance at Club Envy. A woman was grazed by a bullet as she drove away from that club. The woman told authorities that she saw Hampton point the gun at her and pull the trigger, but he has denied shooting at her.
Federal marshals later seized the gun, called a Draco, and a .40-caliber pistol from the car Hampton and Gwynn were riding in, and Gwynn was subsequently indicted on federal charges of providing a firearm to a convicted felon and providing armed security to a felon. Gwynn's federal trial on those charges is scheduled for March 19.
The Conway man who is accused by police of starting the Power Ultra Lounge shooting, 19-year-old Tyler Clay Jackson, is charged with 10 counts of aggravated assault.
He's also charged with two counts of second-degree battery, accused of injuring two people, Marquette Muhammad and Marvell Harris, in that shooting, which has him facing 97 years in prison.
Jackson's lawyers are considering an insanity defense, and he is in jail awaiting an examination by doctors at the Arkansas State Hospital. The proceedings against him cannot move forward until the question of his mental fitness is decided by the presiding judge, Leon Johnson.
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Metro on 03/07/2018