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After more than two days of prosecutors laying out their case, the three men suspected in the 2017 killing of Egypt Covington will go to trial. 34th District Tina Brooks Green ruled Thursday there was enough evidence for two men from Toledo and a man from Sumpter Township to face first-degree murder charges at trial. READ: Judge rules enough evidence for 3 men to stand trial in murder of Egypt CovingtonCovington was found in her Van Buren Township home in June 2017. Van Buren police were unable to make much progress with the case and Michigan State Police took over. Defense attorneys argued while police can place a truck and cell phones tied to the men at Covington’s home, there is no evidence that the men shot and killed her.

After more than two days of prosecutors laying out their case, the three men suspected in the 2017 killing of Egypt Covington will go to trial. READ: Prosecutors lay out case against 3 men charged in 2017 killing of Egypt Covington34th District Tina Brooks Green ruled Thursday there was enough evidence for two men from Toledo and a man from Sumpter Township to face first-degree murder charges at trial. Covington was found in her Van Buren Township home in June 2017. Investigators linked a blue truck that was seen the night of her death and a cell phone back to Toledo. READ: ‘They went to the wrong door’: Prosecutors play video of interview with suspect in murder of Egypt CovingtonAdMore coverage

Prosecutors played a video of an interview with police involving a suspect in the 2017 killing of Egypt Covington from Van Buren Township. In the interview, Shane Evans explains why they came to Covington’s house in the first place. He told police that he told the other men that he knew who lived there and that nobody was home. I knew he was out of his house,” Evans said. They went to the wrong door.”Evans’ indicated that the men entered Egypt Covington’s unit.

Prosecutors laid out their case against the three men charged in the 2017 killing of Van Buren Township woman Egypt Covington. Shandon Groom from Sumpter Township was also charged. During a preliminary exam, those closest to Covington testified that she didn’t know the three men. Edwards said he placed Shane Evans with the two others, Moore and Groom, in Sumpter Township. The evidence tech from Sumpter said he couldn’t say what happened to the phone once he bagged it for evidence.

A third suspect has been formally charged with murder in the 2017 killing of Van Buren Township woman Egypt Covington. Shandon Ray Groom, a 28-year-old from Toledo was charged Thursday with murder and home invasion three years after Covington was found bound and shot in her home. The arrest is another piece of the puzzle in the case and for her family, it’s another step toward justice. He was charged with felony murder and two counts of first degree home invasion. “It brings it all to life and we now have faces that we can get mad at instead wondering what we didn’t know,” Lindsay Brink said.

Shandon Ray Groom, 28, from Toledo, Ohio, was charged with murder on Dec. 31, 2020 in the 2017 killing of Egypt Covington at her Van Buren Township home. A third suspect has been formally charged with murder in the 2017 killing of Van Buren Township woman Egypt Covington. On Dec. 31, the Wayne County Prosecutor charged Shandon Ray Groom, 28, of Toledo, Ohio, with felony murder and first-degree home invasion in connection with the Egypt Covington case. Covington, 27, was found shot to death inside her home in Van Buren Township on June 23, 2017 by her then-boyfriend. Shane Lamar Evans, 31, from Sumpter Township, Michigan was charged with murder and first-degree home invasion in connection with the case.