PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Charges were dropped Tuesday against a second person in a 2022 quadruple homicide in Portsmouth Tuesday.
Online court records indicated that all charges against Antwann Gore in connection to the shooting deaths of Georgio Davonta Lee, 30; Oleisha Deanna Mears, 37; Ashley Merricks, 34; and Samuel Jones, 66, were dropped in Portsmouth Circuit Court ahead of a jury trial that had been set to begin Wednesday. They were shot to death at a boarding house on Maple Avenue.
Gore had faced four charges of aggravated murder and four charges of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
A jury in January took just an hour before finding Raymond Gore not guilty of all charges against him after he had been charged with the killing of Lee, Mears, Merricks and Jones.
Previously: Raymond Gore found not guilty on all charges in quadruple murder case
Raymond Gore had originally faced 12 felony charges, including four counts of aggravated murder in connection to their deaths, however, those charges were consolidated and the jury deliberated over just six charges, including one aggravated murder charge that named all four victims.