A key witness who identified rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller as the shooter in a 2002 Louisiana nightclub killing has recanted his testimony, saying it was not actually Miller who he saw shoot a 16-year-old concertgoer.
According to Kenneth Jordan, in a sworn statement, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives pressured him to lie under oath, or else he would face a criminal charge, The New Orleans Advocate reports.Miller, 47, is the younger brother of Percy “Master P” Miller. He is serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola after a jury voted 10-2 in 2009 to convict him of killing Steven Thomas.Thomas was killed after sneaking into the Platinum Club in New Orleans. When he stepped off stage during a rap contest, he was attacked by a group of men and shot. Soon thereafter, Miller was arrested and charged with Thomas’ death.
“I know the individual that I saw shoot the gun was not Corey Miller,” said Jordan in an affidavit filed June 23 in 24th Judicial District Court records, The Advocate reports.
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