Aryan Brotherhood Gang Leader Sentenced To Life For Ordering Murder In Jessup Jail

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — A person of the achromatic supremacist Aryan Brotherhood pack successful the Maryland Correctional Institution successful Jessup was sentenced to beingness without parole for ordering the execution of a subordinate of a rival gang, Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said Tuesday.

Joseph Leissler, 52, was convicted successful August of first-degree murder, 3 gang-related charges and conspiracy to perpetrate first-degree execution aft helium ordered 3 pack members to onslaught John O’Sullivan, a subordinate of the pack Dead Man Incorporated, with homemade situation knives.

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The Aug. 14, 2016 onslaught was seemingly carried retired arsenic retaliation for a gang-related battle astatine a antithetic prison, prosecutors said.

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In 2020, Vincent Bunner, Calvin Lockner, 2 of the underlings who attacked O’Sullivan, were convicted of second-degree murder.

A 3rd associate, Brian Hare, pleaded blameworthy to first-degree execution and testified against his co-defendants, prosecutors said.

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“The suspect has been starring a convulsive beingness wrong the jailhouse and this condemnation sends a wide connection that justness doesn’t halt astatine the situation doorway and that immoderate convulsive acts committed wrong situation volition person existent satellite consequences,” Leitess said. “It’s my anticipation that the verdict provides the loved ones of Mr. O’Sullivan with a consciousness of solace, present that the 4th idiosyncratic progressive successful his decease was held accountable and sentenced.”

CBS Baltimore Staff