Police accidentally arrest suspected killer of woman killed live on Facebook

Earl Lee Johnson Jr. was arrested by police in Louisiana on Monday, April 18. He is notably accused of having killed live on facebook Janice David, a 34-year-old woman, reports Paris Match. The victim was strangled, beaten and stabbed afterwards, according to Sgt. L’Jean McKneely Jr. of Baton Rouge. The corpse of the woman was discovered inside a car the evening of Monday April 18.

Note that it was the people who saw the crime live on Instagram who report to Facebook. The police were subsequently contacted. “Afterwards, he tried to set fire to the car the woman was in”, said L’Jean McKneely Jr. The video where we see Janice David being killed lasts about 15 minutes. She was following another video over 3 hours relating to ongoing drug use. “Apparently they were involved in drug use together for a few days and the end result as everyone saw on Facebook Live is this horrible and very evil act“, continues the sergeant.

He was arrested for stealing a car

On the day of the arrest, Earl Lee Johnson Jr. had been arrested for car theft. A case that had nothing to do with murder. It was during the interrogation thathe admitted to the murderaccording to WBRZ. Of course, there were many reactions, especially from the victim’s family. Janice David’s cousin spoke to the WAFP in front of this case that she qualifies “horrible”.

“She didn’t deserve to die like this, nobody deserves it. When they said she was dead, I thought she died in a car accident or something. I never imagined someone would do this to her“, she confided. Note that this is not the first time that Earl Lee Johnson, Jr. is involved with justice. In 2007, he had already been convicted of armed robbery and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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