A Louisiana grand jury on Wednesday indicted a man on a half-dozen counts including first-degree murder, kidnapping and obstruction of justice stemming from a stabbing, live streaming on Instagram, that left a woman dead in April.
35-year-old Earl Lee Johnson Jr. is accused of the attack, which happened inside a car near a South Sherwood Forest Boulevard apartment building.
Authorities identified the victim as 34-year-old Janice David, saying the pair had gone on a dayslong drug binge before Johnson kidnapped David, bound her hands and stabbed her to death in the daytime attack, and streamed her last moments on Instagram.
Along with the first-degree murder charge, Johnson was indicted on second-degree kidnapping, obstruction of justice, theft of a motor vehicle valued at over $25,000 and aggravated flight from an officer.
He also was indicted on a count of unlawful posting of criminal activity for notoriety and publicity — a penalty for his alleged live-streaming of the act online, District Attorney Hillar Moore said.
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