A 19-year-old Butler man will go before a magistrate judge in Chicora on Tuesday for allegedly shooting Maximilian W. Halterman to death on March 19.

Alec D. Miller was arrested March 21 at a home in Venango County after evading police for several days. He is being held without bail in the Butler County Prison for criminal homicide and will go before Magisterial District Judge Lewis Stoughton for a preliminary hearing. But Miller got a break from the jail's setting on Monday when he was called up to the Butler County Court of Common Pleas for another hearing on his previous cases. Miller committed several crimes as a juvenile and was on probation for two crimes committed in 2017. With his latest legal troubles, Miller is in violation of probation. For that, prosecutors placed a detainer on him, further cementing authorities' hold on Miller.

In one of Miller's cases, he pleaded guilty to burglary, getting him five years of probation. While dealing with the burglary case, Miller went to his then-lawyer's office. While there, he escaped the office, according to court documents. For that he was charged and pleaded guilty to escape. He was sentenced to two years of probation.

Miller's latest crime is the most serious. Miller's alleged victim, Halterman, was found dead at his log cabin rental unit on Davis Road in Oakland Township with two gunshot wounds in his neck and head region. The shooting wasn't reported to police until a 911 call on the morning of March 22, but it was believed to have occurred the night before.

Almost immediately after finding the body, police said, investigators began piecing together what happened, in part from interviews with family members and friends.

That same morning, prosecutor Ben Simon, a Butler County assistant district attorney, offered a theory for the shooting.

“We have reason to believe it's a dual motive: drugs and disrespect toward one another,” he said but would not elaborate.