US Attorney: Prosecutors will not seek death penalty against Louis Coleman

BOSTON — The acting U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts has announced his prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against accused killer Louis Coleman.

In a one sentence filing in the high-profile case on Thursday, Nathaniel R. Mendell, Acting United States Attorney said “The United States hereby provides notice that it will not seek the death penalty against Defendant Louis Coleman.”

Coleman is accused in the the shocking murder of 23-year-old Jassy Correia, seen below in a photo with her daughter.

Prosecutors allege Coleman picked up Correia outside a nightclub in Boston’s theatre district in February 2019 at closing time. The two did not know each other.

Surveillance video recorded hours later allegedly shows Coleman carrying Correia’s lifeless body into his Providence, R.I. apartment. Days later, Correia’s body was found in the trunk of his car during a traffic stop in Delaware.

Louis Coleman was charged with federal kidnapping resulting in a death, which carried a possible death penalty sentence.

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