Devaughan Williams is accused of killing Kiara Alani Smith, the mother of his child, as his case moves closer to trial.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Devaughan Williams returned to court this week as his case moves closer to trial in the death of Kiara Alani Smith.<\/p>\n
One week after Williams\u2019 defense team filed a motion asking the court to quash his most recent indictment for capital murder, Susan Barclay denied that request.<\/p>\n
Following the ruling, Barclay directed both the prosecution and defense to begin preparing their arguments as the case moves forward toward trial.<\/p>\n
Williams is accused of shooting and killing Smith \u2014 the mother of his child.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Kiara Alani Smith was 25 years old at the time of her death and would have turned 27 on Monday, March 2nd.<\/p>\n
Investigators say she was fatally shot the morning of Sept. 6, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers with the Corpus Christi Police Department responded to the 1100 block of Green Earth Drive after people inside the home reported hearing gunshots and discovering Smith\u2019s body.<\/p>\n
Family members said Smith and Williams had been staying at the home of Smith\u2019s aunt, who allowed the pair to live there temporarily.<\/p>\n
According to court records, Williams was already out on bail at the time of Smith\u2019s death for a December 2023 charge of deadly conduct involving the discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n
He also faces additional charges tied to earlier alleged incidents involving Smith, including:<\/p>\n
Assault of a pregnant person in June 2023<\/p>\n
Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in November 2023<\/p>\n
Since Kiara\u2019s death, her family has been active in raising awareness about domestic violence.<\/p>\n
A trial date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devaughan Williams is accused of killing Kiara Alani Smith, the mother of his child, as his case moves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-193945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}