HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A former Huntsville Police Department officer charged with capital murder is now set to go on trial in January 2025 not April 2024 as had been scheduled, court records show.
David McCoy, 29, is charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend, Courtney Spraggins, at the Weston Ranch apartments on Jan. 7, 2022. McCoy also worked as a security officer at the complex.
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Madison County Circuit Judge Alison Austin granted the defense request to move the trial date back, in an order Monday.
McCoy got a new court appointed lawyer, Robin Wolfe, in November. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for McCoy and the court was told Wolfe needs time to get up to speed on the capital case. Wolfe joins attorney Bruce Gardner in defending McCoy.
The attorneys in the case said they expect the trial will last two weeks.
Investigators said McCoy killed Spraggins, who was seven months pregnant, inside her car after she drove from North Carolina to move in with him. According to testimony at his preliminary hearing, after shooting Spraggins McCoy called 911 saying he’d been awakened by a gunshot.