William London also is facing charges including aggravated arson, inciting a riot, inciting a felony and simple escape.
A man charged with being an accessory to second-degree murder in a 2015 shooting pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two years in state prison, court records show.
William London, 20, was charged in 17-year-old Kimante Washington’s death. Washington was 17-years-old and a student at George Washington Carver High School when he was killed in the 1900 block of Port Street in the St. Claude neighborhood on Feb. 12,2015.
Albert Myles, who also was charged in the murder, went to trial last month, and was convicted by a jury of manslaughter and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Court records show he will be sentenced on March 28.
London pleaded guilty to the accessory charge on March 9, court records show. He also pleaded guilty in a separate case to battery on a correctional facility employee and was sentenced to one year in prison on that charge, according to court records.
Criminal District Judge Karen Herman ordered those sentences to be served concurrently.
London faces several other charges, including aggravated arson, inciting a riot, inciting a felony and simple escape, court records show.
He is among four Orleans parish inmates accused of participating in a disturbance last year at the Orleans Justice Center jail. The inmates are accused of setting fires to the recreation yard and unlocking the cell doors of two other inmates so they could beat them up.
