Rhode Island
Rhode Island man convicted of fatal kidnapping of woman
BOSTON (AP) — A Rhode Island man charged with abducting and killing a younger mom who had been celebrating her twenty third birthday at a Boston nightclub in 2019 was discovered responsible by a federal jury on Wednesday.
Louis Coleman III, 36, was convicted of kidnapping leading to dying in reference to the February 2019 dying of Jassy Correia, the U.S lawyer’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
The suspect lured Correia into his automotive by promising her a trip house, then sexually assaulted her and strangled her, Assistant U.S. Lawyer Robert Richardson advised jurors in his closing statements on Tuesday.
“She was tricked into going with him and stepping into the automotive. That was not legitimate consent,” he mentioned.
He was captured on surveillance video dragging her physique into his Windfall residence after which researched tips on how to eliminate the physique, prosecutors mentioned.
Coleman, who has a grasp’s diploma in physics and labored as an engineer for a protection contractor, was stopped on Interstate 95 in Delaware days later with Correia’s physique in a suitcase within the trunk. Authorities mentioned she died from strangulation and blunt pressure trauma and Coleman’s DNA was on her physique.
The protection mentioned Correia, who left behind a 2-year-old daughter, willingly bought into Coleman’s automotive after she was thrown out of a ride-hailing automobile that was not hers, and engaged in consensual intercourse.
She was the aggressor within the automotive, protection lawyer Jane Peachy mentioned in closings. He “panicked” when Correia died.
“A part of the rationale he didn’t assume he may go to the police is he’s a Black man in America who had already been overwhelmed as soon as by police in San Diego,” Peachy mentioned.