Trial date set nearly two years after Corpus Christi mother’s killing

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Devaughan Williams is scheduled to stand trial Sept. 14 on a capital murder charge in the 2024 shooting death of Kiara Allani Smith.

Williams appeared in court Thursday for a status hearing.

Smith, the 25-year-old mother of Williams’ child, was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound during the early morning hours of Sept. 6, 2024…

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