Bouncer to be indicted in murder

Jamaica resident Darryl Littlejohn is expected to be charged with first-degree murder today, Thursday, March 23, 2006, in the gruesome murder of John Jay College of Criminal Justice graduate student Immette St. Guillen according to media reports.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office was expected to unseal the indictment this morning, nearly one month after St. Guillen’s nude and beaten body was found raped and strangled – her head wrapped with packing tape – and dumped in an isolated, weeded section of Fountain Ave. in the East New York area of Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn Grand Jury heard evidence and testimony for nearly a week before apparently deciding to hand up the first-degree murder indictment of Littlejohn, 41, for the brutal murder of St. Guillen.
Littlejohn, an ex-convict with a long rap sheet, was working as a bouncer at The Falls bar in SoHo the last night that St. Guillen, 24, was seen alive. He has been the prime suspect of an intense police investigation that has captured the both city and national attention and numerous headlines.
Last week, investigators reported they recovered the suspect’s blood on the plastic ties used to bind St. Guillen’s hands behind her back. That DNA evidence helped to link Littlejohn to St. Guillen and several witnesses identified Littlejohn as the last person to see St. Guillen alive as she left the bar a 4 a.m. on February 25. Cell phone records also put Littlejohn near the site where the body was dumped the day after the murder.