Second man involved in murder of Marshall Terrell Johnson pleads guilty Share Updated: 6:07 PM CDT May 23, 2021
Second man involved in murder of Marshall Terrell Johnson pleads guilty Share Updated: 6:07 PM CDT May 23, 2021
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Show Transcript NOW POLICE ARE TELLING US THE TWO SUSPECTS IN THE CASE WERE ALREADY BEHIND BARS. POLICE HAVE CHARGED TWO HOMELESS MEN WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN LATE JULY, THEY’RE ACCUSED OF KILLING 23-YEAR-OLD DES MOINES RESIDENT MARSHAL AARON TERRELL JOHNSON IN A HOMELESS CAMP IN THE WOODS JUST SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN. WE KNOW THERE WAS SOME SORT OF DISPUTE, BUT I DON’T THINK WE ARE EVER GOING TO WRAP OUR BRAINS AROUND ANYTHING THAT WOULD PROVOKE THIS TYPE OF RESPONSE. TODD: POLICE SAY THE KILLING WAS BRUTAL. THEY SAY NORRIS SHOT MARSHALL JOHNSON IN THE HEAD. THEN FREELAND SHOT HIM IN THE TORSO. THEN NORRIS CUT HIS NECK WITH A SHARP OBJECT. BOTH MEN THEN WRAPPED THE DEAD MAN IN PLASTIC AND TRIED TO BURY HIM.
Homeless Des Moines man to plead guilty in 2019 homicide
April 25, 2021
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A Des Moines man has agreed to plead guilty in a 2019 homicide as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Court documents said Yancy Freland, 47, plans to plead guilty to attempted murder, manslaughter and two other charges in the grisly death of 23-year-old Marshal Aaron Terrell Johnson in an industrial area just south of downtown Des Moines. He was originally charged, along with Bryan Norris, 28, with first-degree murder in the case.
Authorities have said Johnson was shot and had his neck cut sometime after July 26, 2019. Johnson s body was first wrapped in plastic and buried before it was dug up, partially burned and then reburied at the former Dico industrial site near 16th Street Southwest and Martin Luther King Junior Parkway.
Homeless Des Moines man pleads guilty to grisly 2019 killing
Victim was shot, had neck slashed, and body partially burned.
Posted: Apr 25, 2021 10:39 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A Des Moines man has agreed to plead guilty in a 2019 homicide as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Court documents said Yancy Freland, 47, plans to plead guilty to attempted murder, manslaughter and two other charges in the grisly death of 23-year-old Marshal Aaron Terrell Johnson in an industrial area just south of downtown Des Moines. He was originally charged, along with Bryan Norris, 28, with first-degree murder in the case.
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A Des Moines man charged in a grisly 2019 homicide has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, court documents show.
Yancy Freland, 47, was charged alongside Bryan Norris in the death of 23-year-old Marshal Aaron Terrell Johnson, whose body was found near the former Dico industrial site at the corner of 16th Street Southwest and Martin Luther King Junior Parkway just south of downtown Des Moines.
A Des Moines man charged in a grisly 2019 homicide has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, court documents show.
Yancy Freland, 47, was charged alongside Bryan Norris in the death of 23-year-old Marshal Aaron Terrell Johnson, whose body was found near the former Dico industrial site at the corner of 16th Street Southwest and Martin Luther King Junior Parkway just south of downtown Des Moines.
Police believe Johnson was shot and had his neck slashed sometime after July 26, 2019. His body was wrapped in plastic and buried, then exhumed, partially burned and reburied in what a Des Moines Police spokesperson called one of the most complex and complicated crime scenes in recent memory.