Jury selection is set to begin today in Jefferson County, as the court is preparing for the 2017 1st-degree murder case against a Mt. Vernon teenager. 19-year-old Roderick Oats Jr. is facing 3 counts of 1st degree murder, for the July 2017 shooting death of Carlos Johnson. The Mt. Vernon Police Department responded to the early morning hours of July 9th, 2017, to the 700 block of South 25th Street in Mt. Vernon, after a report came in of shots fired. Officials were then later contacted by an area hospital that a man was brought into their emergency room with gunshot wounds. Oats was then arrested later that same night in Benton, where he was charged with 3 counts of 1st-degree murder, for Johnson’s death. His bail was then set at $3-million. At the time of his arrest, Oats was free on a $2,500 cash bond, after being arrested in Marion County for alleged possession of a stolen firearm and for carrying or possessing a firearm without a proper FOID card. At the time of the arrest, he was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for leaving a party in Salem, where two people had been shot. While he was not a suspect of that shooting incident, he was allegedly found to be in possession of a 38-caliber handgun, that was reportedly loaded with 4 bullets and had the hammer cocked. The gun was reported stolen back in 1982, from Hanover, Massachusetts.