A Newport News man accused of killing a Williamsburg teenager and leaving her body in a remote area of Isle of Wight County two years ago has pleaded not guilty.

Andarius McClelland, 23,  was arraigned Feb. 12 in Isle of Wight County Circuit Court on charges of first- and second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is scheduled for a two-day trial starting July 8. All three charges are in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Aonesty Selby.

When Selby’s family didn’t hear from her for two days, they headed across the James River Bridge the night of Jan. 13, 2023, to look for the teen by following location pings from her cellphone. The search took them to a dirt logging pack nearly 4 miles outside the town of Windsor where they found her body. McClelland was arrested and charged with the crime three days later.

McClelland faces 20 years to life in prison on the first-degree murder charge and between five and 40 years if convicted on the second-degree charge.

Sheriff’s Office investigators contend in court filings that Selby left her Williamsburg home at 1:18 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2023, for a date with McClelland, whom she knew as “Darius.” Court filings allege Amnesty to have received $30 from “Lucas Duke,” another alleged alias for McClelland, via a CashApp account, and to have used the money to hire an Uber driver to take her to an apartment McClelland shared with his brother, Andricus.

The car reportedly arrived at McClelland’s apartment roughly half an hour later. Andricus, according to the filings, told police that Andarius and Selby were both at the apartment the night of her disappearance, and that Andarius had asked to borrow Andricus’ 2021 Dodge Charger to give Selby a ride home. The car was seen at 10:47 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2023, leaving Isle of Wight and entering Newport News.

Andricus allegedly told police it had been returned to him covered in dirt. Andricus also allegedly told police he’d discovered his Glock 9mm pistol missing from a nightstand drawer after Andarius left with Selby. When he confronted Andarius about the missing firearm, Andarius allegedly told his brother he’d “needed to get rid of the gun” and sold it, according to court documents.

On Jan. 16, 2023, the state medical examiner’s office in Norfolk determined Selby’s cause of death to be a single gunshot wound.

McClelland separately faces four felony charges of assaulting law enforcement. The alleged offenses, according to court records, occurred on March 1, 2024, while he was in custody at the Western Tidewater Regional Jail. He remains incarcerated there, according to jail records.