DETROIT (WWJ) -- Former Michigan State University basketball standout Keith Appling will face a jury following the killing of relative.
A judge ordered the 29-year-old to stand trial on several charges, including first-degree murder, in connection with the shooting death of 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds in May.
Appling is also charged with one count of felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of felony firearm.
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office says that the former MSU athlete shot the man on May 22 outside a home on Detroit’s west side. Edmonds’ wife is the first cousin of Appling’s mother.
According to authorities, the two men got into an altercation over a handgun, and Appling fatally shot Edmonds before fleeing the scene.
28-year-old Natalie Bannister -- Appling’s former girlfriend who is accused of driving him away from the shooting -- has also been charged with one count of accessory after the fact and one count of lying to a police officer.
Appling, a Detroit Pershing graduate, played at MSU from 2010 to 2014, and was the team’s leading scorer going into his junior season. He later went on to have a short-lived career playing for the Orlando Magic.
In 2020, he spent 18 months on probation for drug charges. About two years earlier, Appling was sentenced to a year in jail for carrying concealed weapons and resisting arrest.
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