Murder trials dates to be set


The deaths of Andrew Nichols and Ketitra Jones may have happened months, and for Nichols, years ago, but those charged in their cases are still making their way through the court system. Sam Dumas Dawkins, Robert Vincent Lambert, Michael Scott West and Chad Ashley Allen Charged with the 2009 murder of Andrew Nichols, Dawkins, Lambert, West and Allen have all joined issue and will be tried together. According to investigators, Nichols was taken from the area of Ivy Street in Porterdale and transported to Dawkins' home on Deer Trail in Oxford.