Testimony will continue Monday in the first degree murder trial of Isaac Miller, charged with shooting his father in 2019.
Miller, 27, allegedly shot Anthony Chestnut in their Jackson Street home in Chadbourn in December 2019. Miller claimed self defense.
Miller was arrested on the Chestnut murder charges in January 2020. The raid on the home also turned up MDMA, also known as Ecstasy. Miller was charged with resisting an officer, maintaining a dwelling for drug activities, and murder.
Miller’s reported girlfriend, Victoria Robinson, was arrested in the same raid. She was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver MDMA, robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, and interfering with emergency communications. She is still awaiting trial.
Kanishia Lynette Parker, 28, also of 203 Jackson Street, and was also charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana, and possession of paraphernalia.
Officers had responded to the home the day before the raid after a report of someone firing a gun in the yard. Miller and Robinson were out on bond after firearms and what investigators called “a large quantity of marijuana” were seized during a previous visit by police.
The killing was the second tied to Miller. On Aug. 29, he allegedly killed William Nance at a home in the 500 block of Dessie Road, Chadbourn. Miller claimed he was acting in self defense in that shooting as well.
The home at 203 Jackson Street was well known to law enforcement even before the December 2019 shooting. On May 10, 2016, Kenneth Barnard Wooten allegedly shot and killed Jacob Baldwin in the yard at the home. Wooten was charged for that killing days before Miller was arrested. Wooten was on probation for an unrelated crime when he allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and went on a shooting spree in Chadbourn in November 2019. One man was injured in that incident.
The case will be the first major Chadbourn crime to go to trial since the arrest of former Police Chief Anthony Spivey on narcotics and embezzlement charges earlier this year.
Spivey was one of the lead officers on the Jackson Street killing, although it was investigated by the Sheriff’s Office and State Bureau of Investigation. Spivey was fired from the town last year over allegations of missing cash, guns and drugs. He later faked his own death after allegedly stealing two catalytic converters from a Tabor City garage where he was working while out on bond.
Spivey is held held under a secured bond pending trial.
