Man pleads guilty to carjacking UM student

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A 19-year-old Birmingham man pleaded guilty last week to a series of July carjackings, including one in which a University of Montevallo student was shot.

Keundre Lerico Johnson, a.k.a. Blood, entered guilty pleas to a seven-count indictment and avoided a trial set for February. He will be sentenced on April 26 and faces a minimum of 57 years in prison, according to U.S. District Attorney Alice Martin.

The crime spree started on July 26 when a Birmingham pizza delivery driver&8217;s car was stolen, and he was robbed at gunpoint of $25.

Five days later, UM graduate student Amy Holaway Rogers was abducted and car-jacked outside her Homewood apartment. She was later shot in Hoover as she tried to escape.

Rogers survived her injuries, but surgeons removed her spleen and left kidney.

Johnson said later the same day he abducted a woman outside a Leeds car wash and forced her to withdraw money from a bank ATM machine. She escaped without injury.

Another man, Mackese Walker Speight, of Dolomite, pleaded not guilty and faces trial Feb. 12. Three juveniles are also charged for their role in the carjackings