Baton Rouge man who livestreamed himself stabbing woman to death found guilty of murder

Baton Rouge man who livestreamed himself stabbing woman to death found guilty of murder

An East Baton Rouge jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder Friday for stabbing a woman to death on Instagram Live during the haze of a multiday drug binge.

Jury convicts man in killing that was livestreamed on Facebook

BATON ROUGE - An East Baton Rouge Parish jury on Friday convicted Earl Lee Johnson in the 2022 killing of a woman whose stabbing death was livestreamed on Facebook.Jurors opened deliberations Friday afternoon and returned quickly with a guilty verdict. Johnson faces a mandatory life term for first-degree murder when he is sentenced Dec. 10. To justify the first-degree murder charge, prosecutors also had to prove the underlying element of kidnapp…