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Baltimore County, MD

May 5, 2008

Trial begins for two-time killer in slaying of inmate

The capital murder trial of twice-convicted killer Kevin G. Johns Jr., 25, accused in the 2005 strangulation of another inmate on a prison bus, began Monday this morning amid heavy security in Harford County Circuit Court.

Johns opted today to have non-jury trial, so Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr. will decide whether he is guilty in the killing of Philip E. Parker, 20, on a prison bus as it passed through Baltimore County en route from Hagerstown to the maximum security prison in Baltimore known as Supermax. Read more

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