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High School Star's Father Faces March Hearing In Battery Case

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By TOM BRENNAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 5, 2009

TAMPA - A March hearing was set today for Vidal Mills, facing misdemeanor battery charges for beating a teen who allegedly boasted of killing his son – Jefferson High School football star Cedric "C.J." Mills.

Defense attorney Jamie Garcia and prosecutor Carl Wilander told Hillsborough County Judge John Conrad that they need more time to sift through surveillance tapes taken at the restaurant where the confrontation occurred.

Conrad scheduled a status hearing March 5.

The younger Mills was shot dead in the driveway of his Carver City home April 25, 2007, by two men who jumped out of a Chrysler Sebring and then drove away. No arrests have been made.

His sister was working at the McDonald's restaurant at 1905 N. Dale Mabry Highway on Oct. 15 when she recognized a customer as someone who police said was bragging on the street that he had killed her brother. She called her mother.

Vidal Mills arrived and struck Fredrick Powell, 19, in the face, police said.

Mills claims it was in self-defense.

Reporter Tom Brennan can be reached at (813) 259-7698 or tbrennan@tampatrib.com.

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