After months of asking, the suspect in the December 2021 fatal shooting of Stanley Bussell on Clearman Court in Hopkinsville has a new attorney.
Public defender Eric Bearden has replaced Doug Moore in representing Bobby Spikes and he told Judge John Atkins Wednesday morning that DNA evidence is still pending about three months out from the August 28 trial date.
Judge Atkins continued that case until the trial date, but urged attorneys to meet and get a good understanding of where the case and another potential case in Trigg County stand.
Spikes remains a suspect in the killing of 34-year old Candace Marcel of Hopkinsville in Trigg County, though he has not been indicted there.
Hopkinsville police allege that on December 8, 2021 Spikes and his girlfriend called Bussell to a home on Clearman Court to work on a vehicle and that’s when he fatally shot him in the head.
Bussell’s body wasn’t discovered until Marcel was found dead in an abandoned vehicle on Cerulean Road in Trigg County and a search warrant was served at Marcel’s Clearman Court home.
Spikes and Marcel had been in some type of relationship and had once lived together, though they were no longer sharing a home, according a detective who testified at a hearing in December of 2021.