The state Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear arguments on Woodrow Karey’s 2014 second-degree murder indictment.
Karey, 56, was set to go to trial Sept. 12, but the high court granted a stay on Aug. 31. Karey is accused of walking into Tabernacle of Praise during a revival service on Sept. 27, 2013, and shooting pastor Ronald Harris, 51, twice with a shotgun.
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Stitch Guillory said at the time of the arrest that Karey immediately turned himself in to authorities and claimed Harris had raped his wife.
“Deputies picked up Karey at the corner of Deshotel and Opelousas streets minutes after the shooting,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Myers said in 2013. “He directed them to two guns he discarded in a wooded area close to the intersection. One was a shotgun, the other a .22 pistol.”
Karey has no other criminal history. He was indicted on one count of manslaughter in November 2013, but prosecutors took the case back to the grand jury in June 2014, resulting in the second-degree murder indictment.
In January 2015, Judge Clayton Davis tossed out the 2014 indictment, agreeing with the defense assertion that there had been an understanding by all parties that they would “live with the result of the initial grand jury.”
That ruling, however, was overturned by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, and Karey appealed to the state Supreme Court.
Defense attorneys Todd Clemons and Adam Johnson said the court hasn’t said whether arguments will be presented in writing or in a hearing with oral arguments or both.
Karey remains in the Calcasieu Correctional Center on $500,000 bond.
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