TRIAL DATE SET IN INDIAN PARK DEATH

A spring trial date was scheduled Monday for Robert Moore, 19, of Cape Girardeau, who faces a second-degree murder charge stemming from an October gunfight in Indian Park that killed Jesus Sides, also 19 and of Cape Girardeau.

Moore's jury trial will be June 12 before Circuit Judge John Grimm.

In December, Moore pleaded innocent to the murder of Sides.

Moore is also charged with armed criminal action, tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution and receiving stolen property in connection with the shooting.

The tampering charge stems from reports Moore sought to hide his revolver in a portable toilet in Indian Park. The receiving stolen property charge stems from reports the revolver was stolen in a burglary of an Anna, Ill., pawn shop. Moore has testified a third party, a white man known as the "Cadillac man," sold him the gun.

Since 1998, Moore has been arrested for selling an imitation controlled substance that resembled crack cocaine, for driving an automobile without the consent of its owner and for a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property. This month, he was served a warrant for a misdemeanor charge of possessing marijuana.

A witness to the shooting testified she heard between 10 and 15 gunshots.

"There will be a lot more facts that will come out in this case than have been in the public record," said Cape Girardeau County Prosecutor Morley Swingle.

During a preliminary hearing in November, Moore claimed he shot Sides unintentionally while firing at his 17-year-old brother, Solomon Sides.