ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The sentencing hearing for the man convicted in a deadly Martin Luther King Jr. Day shooting in Fort Pierce has been postponed as his defense seeks a new trial.<\/p>\n
Kemmye Parson was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday morning, but that hearing has been delayed after his attorney filed a motion for a new trial. The motion must be heard before sentencing can move forward.<\/p>\n
A hearing on the motion is now set for May 19 at 9:30 a.m., according to court records.<\/p>\n
Parson was found guilty earlier this year in connection with the 2023 shooting at Ilous Ellis Park during an MLK Day celebration.<\/p>\n
Video shows celebrations at park in Fort Pierce before the gunfire on MLK Day on January 16, 2023. (CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n
Twenty-nine-year-old Nikkitia Bryant was killed in the shooting. Investigators said she was attending the event with her daughter when she was caught in the crossfire. Several others were also injured.<\/p>\n
Parson has remained in custody since his arrest in 2023.<\/p>\n
It remains unclear how the motion for a new trial could impact the timeline for sentencing. CBS12 is working to learn more about the arguments behind the motion and what could happen next in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The sentencing hearing for the man convicted in a deadly Martin Luther…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-240416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}