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| Md. inmate charged with strangling convict |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/08/2005 |
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An inmate who killed his cellmate a year ago and warned a judge he might kill again was indicted Monday on charges of strangling a 20-year-old convict aboard a prison bus. Kevin G. Johns Jr., 22, could get the death penalty in the killing last month of Philip Eugene Parker Jr. He was strangled aboard a bus carrying five armed officers and 35 prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons. A day before the killing, Johns told a judge that he would kill again unless he got psychiatric help. Correction Commissioner Frank C. Sizer Jr. would not comment on how the slaying could have occurred. The (Baltimore) Sun has reported that another inmate on the bus wrote to his family that Parker's attacker managed to loosen his waist chain and slip it around Parker's neck. The state fired three of the officers on the bus. A fourth officer was suspended for five days. Parker, who was in prison for robbery and a weapons violation, had testified in front of the same judge about Johns' mental instability. Parker was also among several inmates called as defense witnesses at Johns' sentencing for strangling a 16-year-old cellmate last year. The bus was taking the inmates from the state prison near Hagerstown to correctional institutions in the Baltimore area. Calls to a defense attorney who represented Johns in past proceedings were not immediately returned Monday. |
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