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Wiggins, 34, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder and first-degree felony murder. The state is seeking the death penalty.

District Attorney Ray Crouch opened the trial by sharing Baker's last words: "Shots fired. Officer down." "This crime is on camera. The defendant has confessed," Crouch said. "There’s scientific testing, fingerprints, DNA, ballistic testings, all to confirm and reconfirm that the defendant committed these crimes." Wiggins' attorney, Luke Austin Evans, said he doesn't plan to call witnesses at this phase in the case. He promised to conduct the trial in a way that "maintains dignity to Sgt. Baker's memory." The one question jurors may have, he said, is whether Wiggins used reflection and jud...

Jury plans have quietly advanced behind the scenes. A pool of Knox Countians tapped for potential service first were asked more than a year ago to fill out questionnaires about the case. Then, COVID-19 hit, creating huge delays in the justice system across Tennessee. Wiggins himself contracted the virus. Some of the potential jurors quizzed Monday morning had to be reminded of their responses to the questionnaire because it had been so long since they filled it out. The survey asked questions such as their thoughts on the appropriateness of the death penalty and whether a person's mental heal...

Hundreds of law enforcement personnel and volunteers with dogs and helicopters searched the area for days looking for the missing boy.