LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A jury has been selected for the capital murder trial of a Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas.
The judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys for Abdulhakim Muhammad questioned more than four dozen potential jurors Monday and Tuesday before they found 12 jurors and two alternates.
Muhammad has confessed to killing 23-year-old Army Pvt. William Andrew Long and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula in Little Rock in 2009. He says the shootings were in retaliation for U.S. military action in the Middle East.
If he's convicted of capital murder, Muhammad could face the death penalty. Potential jurors who said they were opposed to capital punishment were dismissed.
Muhammad was born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn., and changed his name after converting to Islam. He was also a student at Tennessee State University in Nashville.
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