TOPEKA (AP) — A 40-year-old Topeka man already facing a murder charge in a 2012 case has been charged with murder in a case from 2000.
Shawnee County court records show that Monroe Eugene Lockhart III was charged Thursday with a first-degree murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Damon J. Anderson, Topeka, on Valentine’s Day 2000. The records didn’t list a lawyer for Lockhart in that new case.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reportsed Lockhart is incarcerated on a nearly 10-year sentence after he was convicted in 2013 in a violent home invasion.
Lockhart is also charged with premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated arson in the 2012 death of Corey M. Brown, whose body was discovered in Douglas County.