Charles Richardson, who pleaded not criminally responsible for two murders that occurred in less than a month, is competent to stand trial today in the fatal shooting of a Howard teenager.

Richardson, 24, of Columbia, could face up to life in prison if a Howard jury convicts him this week for the first-degree murder of Trae Davon Allen, 19, of Columbia, whom police found dead May 21, 2007, inside Richardson’s Brook Way town house.

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