Updated Dec 20, 2:58 PM; Posted Dec 20, 1:25 PM
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A Jefferson County grand jury has upgraded charges against a Mobile man in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy during a turkey hunt.
Joshua Stewart Burks, 36, was initially charged with reckless manslaughter in the death of Troy Ellis.
The grand jury, which heard the case on Dec. 10, upped the charge to capital murder of a person under the age of 14. Burks was booked back into the Jefferson County Jail at 3:18 p.m. Friday and was released at 5:30 p.m. after posting $60,000 bond. He was previously out on $15,000 bond.
Obed Ellis, Troy’s father and a football coach at Mortimer Jordan High School, was also injured in the shooting. Troy was a fifth grader at Cahaba Elementary School in Trussville when he was…
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