Local News in Brief : Suspect Let Go, Charged
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The “primary suspect” in the slaying of a prominent South Los Angeles woman will be arraigned today on murder charges--just over two months after he was released from custody for lack of evidence against him, authorities said.
Makeitha Christon, 35, was freed in February after the district attorney’s office decided not to charge him with the murder of Hertycine Johnson, 37, who was found shot to death Feb. 1.
Johnson, an active member of the California Black Republican Council, wrote a column for a black community newspaper and was a leasing manager at an automobile dealership.
“We developed additional information that satisfied the district attorney’s office, enabling them to file charges,” Los Angeles Police Detective Richard Marks said without elaborating.
Christon and Anthony Harris, 31, will also be arraigned Friday in the murder of Frank Jackson, whose bludgeoned and stabbed body was found March 26 in an alley behind the 4800 block of Vermont Avenue.
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