‘Smart, loving, boisterous, kind girl’: Day one of trial against Hopewell man accused of killing 8-year-old P’Aris Moore

HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — Day one of a three-day trial against the man accused of killing 8-year-old P’Aris Moore is underway. A jury was selected, both sides gave opening statements and five of the Commonwealth Attorney’s 15 witnesses took the stand in the case against Jamari Taylor.

Facts of the Case

On Dec. 30, 2022, P’Aris Moore was just days away from her ninth birthday when police say three men drove down the 2300 block of Freeman Street and shot her from inside the car.

She was a third grader at Henry E. James Elementary School.

Now 20-year-old Rayquan Harvell, 19-year-old Brandon Warner and Jamari Taylor were arrested and charged with her murder in 2023…

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