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Local teen to get new trial for shooting death in Moline

An East Moline teen, sentenced to 60 years in prison for murder, has been allowed to withdraw the guilty plea that led to his sentence.
LaMaree Wilson-Neuleib photo from Rock Island County Sheriff

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, Illinois – An East Moline teen, sentenced to 60 years in prison for murder, has been allowed to withdraw the guilty plea that led to his sentence.

That means LaMaree Wilson-Neuleib will get a new trial.

Prosecutors claimed Wilson-Neuleib opened fire into a car with three people inside, wounding Eric Roberson – from whom Wilson was allegedly buying marijuana – and killing 18-year-old Zac Phillips of Colona, Illinois, who gave Roberson a ride. The shooting happened between 10:30 and 11 a.m. on a weekday in May 2015, in a neighborhood near Black Hawk College.  Nearby Jane Addams Elementary School, at 3520 53rd Street, and Butterworth Elementary School, at 4205 48th Street, were locked down as a precaution when the shooting happened.

When he was sentenced in November 2015, Lyndsie McCoy vowed to send Wilson-Neuleib a photo of her son, Zac, twice a year.

Now, Wilson-Neuleib is being allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and get a new trial.  The 60-year prison sentence, of which he would have been required to serve 58 years, was also vacated.

Court records showed Wilson-Neuleib will face the original charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.

Wilson-Neuleib could go to trial as early as mid-June of 2016; he remained in jail in lieu of $2-million bond.

 

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