TAMPA, Fla. — Jury selection is now in its second day in the first-degree murder trial of Ronny Tremel Walker, the man accused of killing 14-year-old Nilexia Alexander in May 2022. The case has drawn widespread attention across the Tampa Bay area and reignited conversations about repeat violent offenders.
Walker is facing the death penalty, with prosecutors arguing he shot the teenager multiple times in the head before leaving her body in a vacant lot on West Floribraska Avenue.
“It won’t bring my baby girl back, but it will give me some peace that he’s off the streets,” said Ashley Alexander, Nilexia’s mother, during a news conference following Walker’s arrest in July 2022…