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An Adams County Illinois judge says there's enough evidence to continue the first degree murder case against Vincent Carter.

Carter is accused of shooting Terry Williams on January 3rd at a Quincy apartment.

Police received a 911 call that there had been a shooting at 219 S. 11th Street. Williams was shot at that location and Carter fled the scene on foot. Read the original web story here.

During the preliminary hearing, testimony from a Quincy police detective indicated that Williams was at the apartment to tell Carter to either get out of the apartment or help pay the $400 a month rent payment.

Carter and his girlfriend were living at the apartment and it was being rented by Tamara Taylor.

Other testimony during the Wednesday hearing showed there were a total of eight people in the apartment when the shooting happened.

Williams was taken to Blessing Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. An autopsy report shows that Williams was shot twice in the upper chest with a .25 caliber handgun.

The gun has never been recovered.

After Carter was arrested the day after the shooting, he told Quincy Police investigators that Williams lunged at him twice during an argument over the rent payments and that Carter shot him after that confrontation.

Carter is due back in court April 1st and he is set to go to trial in May.

His attorney, Chief Public Defender Holly Henze, filed a motion last month to have Carter evaluated to see if he was mentally capable of understanding the court proceedings. A psychologist found he was mentally competent and his attorney withdrew her motion. Read that story here.