The attorney representing a man charged in the shooting deaths of his grandmother and a Hollister man filed a motion in Halifax County District Court seeking a mental evaluation for his client.
Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp confirmed Wednesday the result of a preliminary autopsy shows Isaiah Caesar’s 74-year-old grandmother was shot.
In his first court appearance since being charged in the murders of his grandmother and a Hollister man, Isaiah Caesar was assigned a local attorney and will be also be assigned an attorney through the Office of Indigent Defense Services.
A man charged in the death of his grandmother Friday now faces a murder charge in the shooting death of a Hollister man earlier this month.
A Halifax County native who lived part-time with his grandmother has been charged this evening in her murder.
