County prosecutors appeal ruling in 2021 Muddy Creek Township homicide case
The Butler County District Attorney’s office has filed an appeal in state Superior Court to overturn a Common Pleas Court ruling prohibiting the use of a video purporting to show the defendant in a 2021 homicide case shooting his brother, who prosecutors said witnessed the homicide.
The appeal is over a ruling that denies the district attorney’s office the ability to use as evidence a video that prosecutors said was recorded May 20 in a ride-share vehicle in Atlanta, and shows defendant Paris Elias Carter, 24, shooting his brother, Dante Carter, in the back of the head to eliminate him as witness to the shooting death of David A. Hines, 38, of New Castle.
Hines’ body was discovered May 17 in his vehicle along Portersville Road near Route 422 and Interstate 79 in Muddy Creek Township. The district attorney’s office said Paris Carter, Dante Carter and one other person were in the vehicle when Paris Carter shot Hines in the back of the head.
