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Church Yard Murder Case Update: June 20, 2006. Arraignment.
By Ed Waggener Hearings for Willie Paul Grant, charged in the June 10, 2006 murder of prominent Columbia businessman Rex Coffey; and for Grant's daughter, Margaret Huddleston, charged with terroristic threatening, have been set for June 28, 2006 in Adair District Court. Both were arraigned before Adair County District Judge Roger Elliott on Monday, June 19, 2006. and the hearings were set at that time. Willie Paul Grant is being held in Adair County Regional Jail, with bail set at $250,000 cash or secured property. He is represented by the Robert Bertram law firm of Russell County. That bond decision by Judge Elliott stipulates these conditions: "No contact with the family or their property," if bond conditions are met. Grant also faces charge of fleeing and evading a police officer Grant also faces a charge of fleeing and evading a police officer when he defied Deputy Sheriff Tommy Corbin and fled into the Sandlick woods area near the Russell, Cumberland and Adair County intersection. Grant's daughter, Margaret Huddleston, is free on a $1,000 cash bond. Huddleston appeared in court with her mother. The conditions set for Huddleston's release prohibit any contact with the affiant, Janice Kelley, or any member of the Beech Grove Separate Baptist Church. The charge against Margaret Huddleston, dated June 11, 2006, state that she "committed the offense of terroristic threatening in 3rd degree when the defendant stated that 'I would love to kill them all,' in reference to Beech Grove Separate Baptist Church members and that this information was obtained in the course of the investigation of the murder of Rex Coffey." Victim died Sunday, June 11, 2006, at Nashville, TN Rex Coffey died of a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the head on Sunday morning, June 11, 2006, in Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, TN. The warrant issued after the shooting for the arrest of Wellie Paul Grant charged him with "the murder of Rex Coffey by shooting him at the church. The victim, Roy Coffey died on January 11, 2006, in Nashville, TN. After Willie Paul Grant's capture on Sunday, June 11, 2006, a search warrant to search is 1988 White Dodge Pickup at the Kentucky State Police Impound was issued by Trial Commissioner Gail Williams. In the search the following items were taken as evidence:
Jailer Wm. "Bug" Knight said that the staff is unsure whether Grant suffered a snake bite or not before he was brought to the jail. He said that Mr. Grant did not report a snake bite when he arrived at the jail, but that a fellow inmate reported the possibility of one the next day. Mr. Knight said that a wound on Mr. Grant's leg was consistent with a snake bite injury, and that Mr. Grant was taken to the primary care where he was sent on to the hospital. "They treated him and ran some tests," Mr. Knight said, but didn't tell us whether Mr. Grant's wounds were from a snake bite or not." Mr. Knight said that Mr. Grant was taken back to the hospital two more times to treat the wound. Jailer Knight said that he has does not know what kind of snake may have bitten Mr. Grant, if any; or whether it was a poisonous one. Rattlesnakes and copperhead snakes are fairly common in the area where Mr. Grant was hiding on Saturday night before his capture. This story was posted on 2006-06-20 13:35:53
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