Richardson indicted in Howard homicides

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A Howard County grand jury on Thursday indicted Charles David Richardson IV on two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of 40-year-old Alevtina Zhilina and 19-year-old Trae Davon Allen.

In a separate indictment, Kenneth Wayne Sledd, 19, of Columbia, was charged with helping Richardson, 23, avoid arrest by driving him to safe house after Allen?s death and buying Richardson a bottle of bleach to soak his clothes in before a meeting with police on May 21.

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