The initial hearing in the Leandro Lo murder trial, originally scheduled for February 3, has been postponed for more than a month.

The court in São Paulo has rescheduled the hearing or a date seven weeks later: Friday, March 24.

As it stands, the opening trial will now occur more than seven months after Lo was shot and killed.

The eight time IBJJF World Champion was attacked in a night club in the early morning of August 8. The assailant, Henrique Otavio Oliveira Veloz, an off-duty police officer, turned himself in several hours after the shooting.