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After being charged with six felony counts of discharging a gun at an occupied vehicle, a judge has ordered Mikey Williams to stand trial.
Mikey Williams’s high school career captivated social media and the anticipation of his college debut has been enormous. Everything was trending in the right direction until Williams was arrested in earlier this year. Williams was charged with six felony counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle. The sports star is still enrolled in online classes at the University of Memphis and on the teams’ roster. However, he does not have access to the facilities or program activities and his debut is uncertain.
According to ESPN, his entire career is now “uncertain” after a judge has ordered him to stand trial on the charges. Judge Sherry M. Thompson-Taylor set his arraignment for October 24th. Williams’ lawyer Troy P. Owens entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.
Allegedly the shooting stemmed from an altercation at Williams’ $1.2 million hilltop home he owns in the San Deigo area. When police served a search warrant to try and find the weapon the one described in the crime it was not located. Furthermore, Deputy DA George Modlin is weighing additional charges after witnesses claimed Williams threatened them with a gun.
Mikey benefited the most from the NCAA’s new rules on name, image, and likeness securing a multiyear million-dollar deal with Puma while in high school. Heading into college he was supposed to push the limits of NIL alongside Shedeur Sanders, Bronny James, and Caleb Williams.
For now, he will remain on Memphis’ roaster until the outcome of the case is decided.
