(WSB Radio)  The man accused in the fatal shooting of a Georgia trooper last December has been formally notified that he could face the death penalty.

Gregory Favors, 30, had a long rap sheet before the traffic stop December 27, but no violent crimes in his history, when he was arrested for the killing of 38-year-old Chadwick LeCroy.  He has been jailed without bond since his arrest.  At today's arraignment hearing before Judge Shawn Ellen LaGrua, Favors was appointed a death penalty lawyer.

Police say there is dashboard video of the incident.  The affidavit says after LeCroy pulled Favors over for a broken taillight that night, Favors sped off in his Mazda 6 from Bolton Road near I-285.  LeCroy chased Favors for eight miles until the driver crashed into a mailbox.  The affidavit says that the patrol car's dashboard camera shows LeCroy being shot as he approached the Mazda.  He was hit in the neck.

Favors is then accused of driving away in the trooper's car.  Hours later, he was caught in a foot chase shortly after police spotted the abandoned car on Gun Road in Atlanta.  Police say he had thrown a gun on top of an apartment building and had dried blood on his hands.

The AJC reports that on the night of the shooting, Favors was free on bond for felony charges of criminal attempt to enter an auto, possession of tools for the commission of a crime, cocaine possession and two counts of obstructing a police officer.  He had failed to appear in court that morning.