Abilene father and son murder trial due to begin Tuesday

John Miller and Michael Miller are charged with the murder of their neighbor Aaron Howard.

ABILEEN, Texas – (Editor’s Note: The attached video was originally posted in April 2019)

Jury selection began on Monday at the trial of a father and son accused of killing their neighbor in a dispute.

Michael Theodore Miller and John Dee Allen Miller were arrested in September 2018 for the murder of Aaron Howard.

Court documents state that on September 1, 2018, Abilene police were called to an alley on Don Juan Street and determined that the Millers had shot Howard after an argument over a discarded spring box in the alley. Howard died from his injuries.

The documents state that when the first shots were fired, Howard was holding a bat in his hand and was about seven feet away from John Miller, who was closest to Howard. Michael Miller fired his shotgun and John Miller fired two shots with his pistol.

At the time, both Millers admitted to shooting Howard.

Howard’s wife, Kara Box, recorded the meeting on her phone and turned it over to detectives for verification. APD det. Jordan Brown said in an affidavit that it was clear from the video and interviews with the Millers that father and son were tired of their neighbor Howard pranking them, yelling and verbally threatening them. The Millers carried the firearms out during an altercation on September 1, 2018, and stood in the alley as Howard grew more and more frustrated, the documents say.

When Howard raised his bat about seven feet from John Miller, John shot him.

An autopsy revealed that Howard’s cause of death was one gunshot wound to the chest and a gunshot wound to the head. He also had a gunshot wound to his right forearm. A forensic medical examination determined the manner of death to be homicide.

The Millers were charged with murder in December 2018.

The jury is expected to vote until Monday evening, with opening statements beginning Tuesday morning at the Taylor County Courthouse.

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