Jury selection begins in trial of alleged Baton Rouge serial killer accused of targeting Black men Kenneth Gleason, 23 By WAFB Staff | April 12, 2021 at 10:32 AM CDT - Updated April 12 at 10:34 AM
Police said in 2017 they believed the shootings were likely racially motivated.
The trial was originally scheduled to begin one year ago, in April 2020, but was then changed to a sanity hearing. Source: WAFB
Judge Beau Higginbotham, who is presiding over the trial, deemed Gleason competent to stand trial on Aug. 6, 2020, after two doctors examined Gleason.
Gleason is facing two counts of first-degree murder. He is accused of killing Bruce Cofield, 59, on Florida Boulevard on Sept. 12, 2017, and Donald Smart, 49, who was found dead near Louie’s Cafe on Alaska Street on Sept. 14, 2017.