Four Suspects In South Franklin Township Murder Face Trial

Preliminary hearings were held Friday for three of four Washington men charged in the April 13th murder of a Monongahela teen and her seventeen-year-old friend in South Franklin Township.  Patrick Grimm, Washington County Court Administrator, says preliminary hearings were held for Windale Barfield, Jr., Anthony Barfield and Jeheili Cochran and all charges were bound over for court.  A preliminary hearing scheduled for Karon Whitlock was not held after Whitlock waived all of his charges to court.  The four are charged in connection with the shooting death of eighteen-year-old Annalaya Wilkerson and the wounding of a seventeen-year-old girl.  Whitlock and Barfield are facing multiple charges, including criminal homicide.  Cochran is also facing multiple charges, including hindering apprehension and destroying evidence.  Wilkerson and the juvenile were found shot on the side of Jolly School Road.