WARREN — A jury trial is expected to begin Monday in a Trumbull County Common Pleas courtroom for a Liberty man accused of shooting a neighbor last summer.

Daryl L. Casey Jr., 27, of Woodgate Lane, is facing charges of felonious assault, improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation and having weapons while under restrictions.

Casey, who is on electronically monitored house arrest after posting a $40,000 bond, will be represented by attorney Walter T. Madison.

After his initial arraignment on Sept. 10, 2020, Casey was held without bond after Judge Ronald Rice called him a “threat to society.” The next week, however, the judge reinstated the original bond that was set in Girard Municipal Court.

According to court records, four prosecution witnesses have been subpoenaed to testify at trial, including the victim Kavin O. Moore, 33, of Hadley Avenue, Liberty Township.

Moore was shot twice in the leg, according to a Trumbull County 911 report, after the two men confronted each other in the hallway of an apartment complex.

Police reports state Casey turned himself in shortly after the shooting.

Both men at the time lived in neighboring apartments in the 3000 block of Hadley Avenue. According to police reports, Moore walked back to his apartment and his girlfriend immediately called 911 asking dispatchers to send an ambulance. A tourniquet was applied to Moore’s leg, the report states, and he was taken for treatment to St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital.

Court officials don’t expect the trial to last for more than two days, with opening statements expected to begin after lunch Monday afternoon after a 12-person jury plus two alternates are selected.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, jurors in Rice’s courtroom must wear face masks, and are socially distanced inside the smaller third-floor courtroom. The jury box and the witness stand have been partitioned off with a clear glass-like window, and there is limited seating available for the public and news media.

Any overflow spectators must watch the proceedings via video hookup in the nearby magistrate’s room.

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