Accused killers enter ‘not guilty’ pleas in shooting of 12-year-old

Hope Martin was shot to death last year at her Alexandria home.

By JIM BUTLER

Six months after she died in a fusillade of bullets, Hope Martin’s alleged killers have pleaded not guilty.

Martin, 12, was killed and her father injured in gunfire at their Cypress Street home in Alexandria.

Police have not provided information relative to what provoked the shootings.

Kayla Wooten, 38, Deroyce May II, 32, and Latraykus May, 32, are charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.

Arrested in September, they were indicted in January and arraigned this week.

Pretrial conferences are scheduled for each of them in early May.

They have been in custody since their arrests with bail of more than $1 million each.