A person charged with first-degree homicide within the stabbing dying of a 17-year-old coworker in Colorado Springs has entered a not responsible plea within the case.
Joshua Johnson, 28, entered the plea on Wednesday in El Paso County District Court docket. His subsequent scheduled courtroom look is for a motions listening to on Jan. 27.
On June 11, Johnson allegedly stabbed Riley Whitelaw 42 occasions inside a Walgreens retailer the place they each labored. She died on the scene. Whitelaw, earlier than the incident, had reported Johnson to administration, saying he made her really feel uncomfortable and that he’d made undesirable advances towards her, based on an arrest affidavit. She had requested a piece schedule to keep away from Johnson, however their schedules overlapped when Whitelaw requested to work extra hours.
Whitelaw’s household began a GoFundMe web page to fund an academic scholarship fund in her title, presumably to learn college students who examine genetic analysis, “one thing Riley loved finding out,” her household mentioned. As of Thursday afternoon, 539 folks had donated greater than $58,000 to the fund.