Jury selection is expected to begin today in the capital murder trial of a man accusing of shooting and killing a Huntsville police officer in 2019.

LaJeromeny Brown, 45, was charged in the Dec. 6, 2019 death of Huntsville police Officer Billy Fred Clardy III.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

WHNT is reporting thatan estimated 600 jury summons will be issued for prospective jurors with the goal of a 130-person jury panel, who will then be given a roughly 40-page questionnaire.

“These type of cases, there are moving parts. Lots of evidence to go through and just really pairing it down from a big pile to a small pile so that it can be compressed so that we can actually try the case in a reasonable amount of time,” Huntsville assistant district attorney Tim Gann told WAFF.

Clardy and several other police officers were conducting a drug operation to buy 100 pounds of marijuana from Brown at a home on Levert Street in northeast Huntsville, according to the authorities and previous court testimony.

During a court hearing, Huntsville police Investigator Chris Hines testified that Clardy and another officer were waiting inside the home when Brown showed up with a suitcase and other bags. When Brown opened the front door, Clardy moved in to arrest him, the investigator testified. Hines told the court that no one in the house spoke before Brown fired eight shots — two of them hit Clardy — from a modified 9mm Glock.

Police captured Brown about 100 yards from the house.