Funeral company owner shoots pallbearer at 10-year-old's burial service.

The owner of a funeral company, Wilson Chavis, has been charged with murder after shooting and killing a pallbearer, Ronald Steven Banks, before a burial service for a 10-year-old girl at a cemetery in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Chavis confronted two people at the service, who worked for another funeral service company, with which Chavis apparently had a “long-standing business dispute.” Several funeral attendees became upset with Chavis and confronted him over his behavior, and as he was backing up, he tripped over the concrete vault lid near the gravesite and fell to the ground. Chavis then pulled out a gun and fired two shots, striking Banks and a woman. Banks died, and the woman suffered a graze wound.
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