VIDALIA — Trial dates have been set for three of the four men charged in connection to the gruesome April 3 murder of Reginald Green.

Daniel Durans Butler, Reginald Butler and Bryant LaKeith Bethley all faced Seventh District Judge Kathy Johnson Wednesday morning.

The defense for Bethley and Daniel Butler filed a motion for more time to investigate evidence that was previously not in the case file, and to wait on the autopsy report that has still not been completed.

Bethley’s attorney Derrick Carson said he would like some more information on a report of possible cocaine possession in the victim’s vehicle at the time of the incident.

Carson also wanted more information on the incident from the Ferriday Police Department regarding witnesses to the shooting.

A hearing on the new motions is set for Jan. 19, and trial is set for both Daniel Butler and Bethley on April 18.

Reginald Butler is set to face trial Jan. 31 and disregarded the possible new evidence to coincide with his right to a speedy trial.

Daniel Butler, Reginald Butler and Bethley were all charged with second-degree murder at their arraignment June 2, while Daniel Butler and Andreas Marquez Cauley, the fourth suspect in the case, were indicted on charges of obstruction of justice.

All four men were arrested in connection to the shooting on the 800 block of Alabama Avenue that left 25-year-old Green dead.

Green was sitting in a parked SUV with three other people at the time of the shooting. While he was shot repeatedly in the head and torso with a .223-caliber rifle, the others in the vehicle were uninjured.

Bethley is believed to be the gunman in the incident, and Daniel Butler and Reginald Butler — who are brothers — were allegedly in the vehicle in which Bethley fled the scene, according to Ferriday Police investigators.

Cauley allegedly threw the gun used in the killing into Black Bayou, but agents with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries later recovered it.