A man sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for shooting his ex-girlfriend and her two daughters was mistakenly released from prison Thursday before being recaptured in West Virginia.
Authorities say 26-year-old Raymond Thomas Taylor pretended to be his cellmate William Johnson in a Baltimore, Maryland prison so he could be released.
22-year-old Johnson kept quiet as officers came to his cell and mistakenly let Taylor go in his place.
When police came to release Johnson, Taylor gave officers the other man’s ID card and recited the ID number.
He was then taken to a holding area where a second officer looked at the ID card and let him go.
No one noticed the mix-up until a disgruntled Johnson finally spoken up hours later.
Taylor was found at a childhood friend’s home in West Virginia.
When police came to arrest him, he surrendered without struggle.
The two inmates apparently share “similar characteristics” which made it hard for police to tell them apart.
In 2004 Taylor lined his girlfriend and her two daughters against the headboard of a bed and shot them in the body and head.
Tammie Johnson and her daughters, Cierra Johnson and Shatera Brooks were shot several times with a .22-caliber handgun.
All three survived but suffer disabilities.
William Johnson now faces a first-degree conspiracy to escape charge.
SMH….did they really look that much alike or is this another case of “all of us looking alike?”
Come on now….
