Two adults charged in a Muncie boy’s shooting death will stand trial separately. The Star Press reports back in November, a 4 year old boy was killed after he found a loaded handgun inside his family’s home on South Burlington Drive. The boy’s mother,
22 year old Alycia Justyne Smith and a man then described as her boyfriend, 19-year-old Joseph Paul Marquiz Jackson, were arrested, They were each later charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death.