DATE: Wednesday, June 4, 1997               TAG: 9706040459

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COURTS & CRIME

The fourth and final defendant in the slaying of Norfolk State University student George L. ``Tre'' Mills III was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.

Tiron Hutchins, 17, also was convicted of attempted malicious wounding and two firearms charges. A Circuit Court jury deliberated about three hours before reaching a verdict.

Mills, a 20-year-old sociology major from Richmond, was shot about 1:10 a.m. Oct. 26 while sitting in his car in the 2700 block of Myrtle Ave. Testimony showed the shooting stemmed from a near-miss traffic accident involving the defendants and three female students who had been talking with Mills and a friend.

Mills was shot once in the head by Kenyatta D. Walker, who was convicted in April of second-degree murder. Mills died in a hospital.

The two other defendants, Tobias Deloatch and Lorenzo A. Roberts, pleaded guilty to charges of being an accessory after the fact.

Hutchins, of the 800 block of Reservoir Ave., is scheduled to be sentenced later this year. VIRGINIA BEACH Woman charged in death of son released on bond

A woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old son has been released from jail after posting bond.

Kelley Ann Carr Burns left the Virginia Beach jail on $100,000 bond Monday evening. A Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge reduced Burns' bond from $500,000 to $100,000 at an appeal hearing Monday. Burns, 26, of the 1200 block of Pipers Crescent in Virginia Beach, had been in jail since her arrest May 25.

A detective investigating the death of her son, Charles Michael Burns, testified last week that the toddler apparently died of child abuse.

The boy died May 19 at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk.

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