(SALEM, IL) — The jury trial of a 22-year-old Chicago man accused of the June shooting of two men at Laura Leake Park in Centralia is ready to start this morning with jury selection in Marion County Court. Darius Holliday is charged with two Class X counts aggravated battery by discharging a firearm. A Class X felony is punishable by between 6 and 30 years in prison if convicted. Attorneys for both the prosecution and defense met Tuesday in Marion County Court to address last minute motions filed in the case. A defense motion to prohibit Holliday’s prior convictions to be mentioned in open court was denied. Holliday has two prior felony convictions in Vermillion County, starting with a 2012 case for which he was convicted of felony possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison in that case. He was also convicted in a 2013 case for felony mob action and sentenced to two years in prison.   A second defense motion to keep Holliday’s purported associations out of evidence was granted Tuesday without objection. Another motion regarding pending charges against one of the alleged victims was also granted on a limited basis. Holliday is accused of shooting 52-year-old Juan Hayes, of Chicago, and 19-year-old Devale Johnson, of Georgia. Both Johnson and Hayes were treated at St. Louis area hospitals for gunshot wounds to the legs and were ultimately released.