BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish judges on Monday had three second-degree murder trials on their dockets.
Five people were accused after Kerisha Johnson, 36, was found dead in 2023. Police say the death of the pregnant woman appeared to be a case of mistaken identity.
Officers said Johnson was found dead in her car after gunfire erupted at a “teen party” on North Carrollton Avenue. Torey Campbell was set for trial Monday before Judge Louise Hines. Three others have entered guilty pleas, one of them as an accessory after the fact. The state this month asked for a separate trial for one of Campbell’s co-defendants…