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WARREN -- The attorney for a man charged in the fatal shooting of a Warren mother of four plans to file a self-defense motion.
Jeffrey V. Goodman, the attorney for Noel Flores, 19, appeared alongside his client Tuesday in the courtroom of Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew D. Logan, where he expressed his intention to file the motion later that day.
A jury trial date is scheduled for March 18.
Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker will prosecute the case.
A grand jury indicted Noel Flores, 19, for murder, second-degree improper discharge of a firearm and three counts of second-degree possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises related to the death of Ashante Fisher-Kirksey, 26, who was shot to death in early November.
The first two charges listed carry firearm specifications.
On Nov. 11, Fisher-Kirksey's boyfriend phoned 911, reporting that his girlfriend had been shot in the neck after she was followed into her Francis Avenue SE residence by at least one gunman around 2 a.m.
Flores was booked into Trumbull County jail following extradition from St. Petersburg, Florida where U.S. Marshals tracked him to an apartment. Flores was found with a 9 mm firearm, which is the same caliber used in Fisher-Kirksey's death, according to a release from the U.S. Marshal's task force.