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The three were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of Jerry Allen Amerson, who was found shot to death in a ditch along Leo McGuire Road. Amerson was killed when he got out of his vehicle and got into an argument, authorities said. Wilkes, who is out of jail on his own recognizance, is charged with second-degree murder. Batson and Stanford are charged with first-degree murder and are being held in the county jail without bond. But Mathis said there was not sufficient grounds for the removal.