NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A man accused of killing a New Jersey college student has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of another woman.
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver entered his plea Tuesday. The 20-year-old Orange man remains jailed on $5 million bail.
The charges stem from the death of 33-year-old Joanne Brown, who was last seen Oct. 22 in Orange. A work crew found her body Dec. 5 at a vacant house in Orange.
Prosecutors have said she was strangled.
Wheeler-Weaver recently pleaded not guilty to murder in the strangulation death of 20-year-old New Jersey City University student Sarah Butler, whose body was found Dec. 1 in West Orange.
His attorney, Shevelle McPherson, says she hasn’t seen any scientific evidence or eyewitness testimony that links her client to the deaths. She says the evidence she has seen is “very circumstantial.”
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