MS Officer Shot, Charges Filed: Following the weekend shooting of a Mississippi police officer, charges were filed Monday against the teenage suspect. Fox News reports that 19-year-old Johnny Robinson Jr. was charged with attempted murder and one count of armed robbery in the shooting of Clarksdale Cpl. Derrick Couch, who remains in the hospital in critical condition with a bullet lodged in his brain. The shooting occurred Saturday night, about four blocks away from a convenience store that Robinson robbed with another man, though police don't believe the other man was involved in Couch's shooting. Robinson was also charged with an October robbery of the same store. Couch, a pastor and father of five, has been a police officer for more than six years.
Trial Begins for CA Serial Killer: Three decades after a Los Angeles serial killer's first victim was found dead in an alley, and nearly six years after his arrest, the man known as the "Grim Sleeper" is finally going to trial. KTLA reports that 63-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. faces 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from 15 to 35, who he murdered over a span of 30 years. Franklin was linked to the killings with physical evidence, including saliva collected from the victims' bodies and ballistic matches. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
TX Murderer to be Executed: A condemned Texas murderer, who faced a re-sentencing trial and was involved in an unsuccessful escape attempt during his 24 years on death row, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night. Jolie McCullough of the Texas Tribune reports that 43-year-old Gustavo Julian Garcia was sentenced to death in 1992 for the December 1990 fatal shooting of liquor store clerk Craig Turski during a robbery in Plano. Years after his first sentence was handed down, he was granted a new sentencing trial after then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn found that the testimony made by a psychologist in Garcia's original sentencing trial was improper, but he was sentenced to death a second time in 2001. His latest appeal and request for a stay have been denied. He will be the third inmate executed this year in Texas, and the sixth in the nation.
Trial Begins for CA Serial Killer: Three decades after a Los Angeles serial killer's first victim was found dead in an alley, and nearly six years after his arrest, the man known as the "Grim Sleeper" is finally going to trial. KTLA reports that 63-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. faces 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from 15 to 35, who he murdered over a span of 30 years. Franklin was linked to the killings with physical evidence, including saliva collected from the victims' bodies and ballistic matches. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
TX Murderer to be Executed: A condemned Texas murderer, who faced a re-sentencing trial and was involved in an unsuccessful escape attempt during his 24 years on death row, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night. Jolie McCullough of the Texas Tribune reports that 43-year-old Gustavo Julian Garcia was sentenced to death in 1992 for the December 1990 fatal shooting of liquor store clerk Craig Turski during a robbery in Plano. Years after his first sentence was handed down, he was granted a new sentencing trial after then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn found that the testimony made by a psychologist in Garcia's original sentencing trial was improper, but he was sentenced to death a second time in 2001. His latest appeal and request for a stay have been denied. He will be the third inmate executed this year in Texas, and the sixth in the nation.
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