NORFOLK, Va. — A preliminary hearing for the man accused of shooting five people in Downtown Norfolk got pushed back on Tuesday.
Antoine Legrande Jr. had been lined up for the hearing in Norfolk General District Court, but the prosecution team said they needed more time to subpoena a witness.
Legrande is accused of killing three people and hurting two others outside of Chicho's Pizza Backstage on March 19, after an argument broke out about a spilled drink. This was a little before 2 a.m.
25-year-old Virginian-Pilot reporter Sierra Jenkins and semi-professional football player Malik Harris were killed. A month after the shooting, 24-year-old Marquel Andrews succumbed to his wounds.
Two other men who were shot survived.
LeGrande appeared in court handcuffed and shackled alongside his attorney Eric Korslund.
With today’s hearing pushed back, Korslund accused the prosecution of not doing their job well enough.
“So basically they still have a lot of work to do and they can’t get a witness subpoenaed so the case has to be continued,” Korslund said. “He wants to have his day in court and I think it could be easily accomplished if people did their job.”
Prosecutors told the court, they need to subpoena a key witness who identified LeGrande as the shooter.
Korslund questioned how reliable the witness testimony will be.
“The preliminary hearing is extremely important because if this case comes down to eyewitness testimony at 2 o’clock at night when the bars are letting out at Granby Street, I’m certainly going to have a lot of questions for this witness,” he said.
The prosecution also said they need more time to analyze forensic evidence including cell phone location data, shell casings recovered from the scene, and bullets recovered from the victims’ bodies.
Malik Harris's brother, Calvin Harris said despite another delay, the family is hoping they’ll get justice.
“It’s frustrating but what can you do, it’s the justice system,” Harris said. “All I can do is just let it play out. Hopefully, they can continue it and they do what they got to do.”
Legrande was arrested in May, almost two months after the shooting. He was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, five counts of use of a firearm, and two counts of malicious wounding.
13News Now previously confirmed Legrande is a family member of one of five women who was shot in a shooting last year in Norfolk's Young Terrace, but the two shootings are not related.
In court on Sept. 6, when the legal teams were discussing whether or not to delay Legrande's preliminary hearing, lawyers said they were also waiting for forensic results from cell phone tower locators.
The hearing is now slated for November.