Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Ex-Tide QB's murder trial begins
LINDEN -- Jury selection begins today in the capital murder trial of Michael Landrum, the former Alabama quarterback accused of hiring a hit man to kill his 3-year-old daughter and her grandmother.
Landrum, 43, is accused in the deaths of Mikayla Little and 52-year-old Ida Little. The grandmother was taking care of the child, whose mother, Wanda Little, was in Iraq with the National Guard.
The man hired to kill the two, Jeffrey Napier, 23, of Sweet Water is expected to testify.
To avoid a death sentence, Napier earlier pleaded guilty to the August 2003 shooting deaths. He is expected to get life in prison without parole.
The trial is set
for Marengo County Circuit Court Judge Eddie Hardaway's courtroom in Linden.
Landrum, denied bond, has been held in the county jail since his arrest in 2003.
Landrum became the first black quarterback to play at Alabama when he was REPLACEed into the game as a reserve against Vanderbilt on Sept. 29, 1979. The Crimson Tide won 66-3.
He transferred the next season to the University of Southern Mississippi, where he played in 1982-83.
Later, he became known as a disc jockey who worked in west Alabama and called himself "Dr. Rock," working club parties, family reunions and other activities requiring music.
Napier and Landrum were arrested one week after Little and the girl were found shot to death in Little's mobile home in Linden.
Mikayla, along with Wanda Little's other children, a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, had been living with their grandmother since their mother left for Iraq in
February 2003. She returned after the slayings.
The other two children were at the mobile home at the time of the attack but wer
e unharmed. A sheriff's official said Landrum was not their father.
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Wake up America and smell the nigger!
T.N.B.
LINDEN -- Jury selection begins today in the capital murder trial of Michael Landrum, the former Alabama quarterback accused of hiring a hit man to kill his 3-year-old daughter and her grandmother.
Landrum, 43, is accused in the deaths of Mikayla Little and 52-year-old Ida Little. The grandmother was taking care of the child, whose mother, Wanda Little, was in Iraq with the National Guard.
The man hired to kill the two, Jeffrey Napier, 23, of Sweet Water is expected to testify.
To avoid a death sentence, Napier earlier pleaded guilty to the August 2003 shooting deaths. He is expected to get life in prison without parole.
The trial is set
for Marengo County Circuit Court Judge Eddie Hardaway's courtroom in Linden.
Landrum, denied bond, has been held in the county jail since his arrest in 2003.
Landrum became the first black quarterback to play at Alabama when he was REPLACEed into the game as a reserve against Vanderbilt on Sept. 29, 1979. The Crimson Tide won 66-3.
He transferred the next season to the University of Southern Mississippi, where he played in 1982-83.
Later, he became known as a disc jockey who worked in west Alabama and called himself "Dr. Rock," working club parties, family reunions and other activities requiring music.
Napier and Landrum were arrested one week after Little and the girl were found shot to death in Little's mobile home in Linden.
Mikayla, along with Wanda Little's other children, a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, had been living with their grandmother since their mother left for Iraq in
February 2003. She returned after the slayings.
The other two children were at the mobile home at the time of the attack but wer
e unharmed. A sheriff's official said Landrum was not their father.
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Wake up America and smell the nigger!
T.N.B.
