[Baltimore Sun] Man sentenced to six years in prison for lying to grand jury investigating death of Maryland football coach Mike Locksley’s son
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A Gaithersburg man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for obstruction of justice in connection with the murder of Meiko Locksley, the son of Maryland football coach Mike Locksley.
John Willie Kennedy, 46, was sentenced for testifying before a federal grand jury on April 4, 2021, that he was in his house when Meiko Locksley was shot on Sept. 3, 2017. But when federal investigators presented Kennedy with testimony from eyewitnesses who said they saw him put something in the back of his truck before running toward his house after Locksley was shot, Kennedy admitted that he lied to the grand jury.
Mike Locksley, who has helmed the Terps program since 2019, shared his gratitude after the judgment.
“Thank you to all the people that put the work in to bring a little justice for Meiko!” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
According to court documents, Meiko Locksley, 25, was found shot in front of a townhouse in the 5500 block of Harpers Farm Road in Columbia, and Kennedy — who lived a block away — was one of three people who called 911. When officers questioned Kennedy, he said he did not see anything, was inside his townhouse, and discovered Locksley after hearing a loud “bang” and deciding to investigate.
But phone records showed that Kennedy and Locksley had engaged in a series of calls before the shooting. On Jan. 4, 2018, officers confronted Kennedy with the phone records, and Kennedy admitted that he “might have” sold marijuana to Locksley but denied knowing anything about the shooting.
After the gun involved in the shooting was found in Baltimore in March 2020, federal agents obtained a search warrant for location data for Kennedy’s cell phone at the time of the murder, which revealed that Kennedy was in the parking lot in front of the townhouse where Locksley was killed.
Kennedy is the only person who has faced charges directly related to Locksley’s homicide.
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Maryland football coach Mike Locksley looks on during a game this past season. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
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