PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Portsmouth judge reduced the bond for a man accused of shooting the person charged with killing his missing brother as a conflict between the two cases delayed a preliminary hearing Friday.
Raymond Poole appeared in court for a preliminary hearing in connection with the Elliott Avenue investigation, but the Commonwealth asked to continue it while seeking a special prosecutor to handle his case.
Gregory Coffey is charged with first-degree murder and defiling a dead body in connection with the death of Poole’s brother, Gordon Randolph Tillman Jr. The Commonwealth said a conflict prevents prosecutors from handling both cases…