By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Finally Weston G. Miller will be arraigned next week, following his March arrest and filing of charges in the shooting death of a house guest in his Centralia home on B Street.
[1]David Wayne Carson
Miller, 30, has been held in the Lewis County Jail on $1 million bail, unable to make his pleas to first-degree murder because of a question whether he was competent.
Prosecutors say it was unprovoked attack when he shot 43-year-old David Wayne Carson twice in the chest area. Miller told police he acted in self-defense.
One expert said previously Miller was competent but another said he was not. However, today, lawyers on both sides signed an order agreeing Miller is now competent to stand trial.
The former welder is also charged with several counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, as when police searched the home they found five guns, a silencer, a laser site for a gun and a bullet-proof vest.
Miller is scheduled to return to Lewis County Superior Court next Thursday to make his pleas and get a trial date scheduled.
His attorney J.P. Enbody said the issue of insanity – at the time of the incident – could still come up.
Carson, a Centralia resident, died on March 13.
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For background, read “B Street homicide: Defendant says self defense” from Wednesday March 14, 2012, here [2]