Jury selection begins this morning in the capital murder trial of a Beaumont man. 35-year old Johnathan Menard is charged with the February 2021 murder of his girlfriend, 33-year old Kayla Rice who was 24 weeks pregnant at the time of the murder. Prosecutors say she was murdered in Beaumont and her body dumped in a shallow grave in Vinton, Louisiana. The trial is in Judge Raquel West’s courtroom at the Jefferson County Courthouse.