A jury trial is scheduled for today, in regard to a Mt. Vernon teenager who is charged with 1st-degree murder in Jefferson County. 19-year-old Roderick Oats Jr. will have his jurors selected today and they are scheduled to appear in court. The trial on the other hand will be continued on May 1st, with a pre-trial conference scheduled for March 28th. Oats is currently facing 3 counts of 1st-degree murder, in connection to the shooting death of Carlos Johnson back on July 2017. Mt. Vernon Police responded to the 700 block of South 25th Street at around 435pm, on July 9th, 2017. This was in regard to a report of shots being fired. Officials were later contacted to an area hospital, after a man was brought into the emergency room with gunshot wounds. The Jefferson County Coroner declared 20-year-old Carlos Johnson of Mt. Vernon dead from the gunshot wound. Oats was then arrested in Benton, just a little after 1130 that same night. At the time of his arrest, he was free on a $2,500 cash bond, after being arrested in January 2017 for alleged possession of a stolen firearm and carrying or possessing a firearm without a proper identification card. He was a passenger in a stopped car, when he and another person were leaving a party in Salem, where two individuals were shot. He wasn’t a suspect at the time of the shooting incident, but he was found to be in possession of a 38-caliber handgun, which was reportedly loaded with 4 bullets, and had the hammer cocked. The gun was reported stolen back in 1982 from Massachusetts.