Robert Torian, the man charged in the 2019 shooting death of Terrill Moore, continues to wait on evidence to come back from testing and his lawyer requested more to time review the case.
Torian was represented by defense attorney Jason Byrd Wednesday in Christian Circuit Court, who is relatively new to the case. Byrd informed the court that more evidence continues to come in, and this would give them more time to look through what they have.
He says once he has access to all the evidence—of which there is what he calls a large amount in this case—he’ll be able to determine how to move forward with Torian.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jerad Smith had no objection to a pretrial hearing being set, saying that all evidence testing has been significantly slowed in recent times, so Judge Andrew Self set the next hearing for January 27, when he is hopeful this case will finally be able to move forward.
The original arrest warrant from Hopkinsville police says Torian and Moore had been in an argument while both were passengers in a vehicle on McHenry Street in August of 2019. Torian was in the back seat when he exited, opened the front passenger door and allegedly shot Moore in the head.