Attorney General Russell Coleman says he will seek a death sentence for Brailen Weaver, the 19-year-old charged in the April 30 shooting of two U.S. Bank employees in Berea.
The indictment was handed down by a Madison County grand jury Wednesday.
Weaver, of Somerset, has been held in the Woodford County Detention Center since May 4. He is charged with two counts of murder and one count of fleeing and evading.
Coleman sought the indictment separately from an ongoing federal case. Weaver was arrested in Lexington May 1 after he allegedly led police on a high speed chase.
Breanna Edwards, 35, of Madison County, was killed along with Brian Switzer, 42, of Jessamine County. Weaver faces federal charges in their deaths in addition to attempted robbery of the bank.
Last month, his federal trial was delayed indefinitely.
Kentucky last executed a death row inmate in 2008. Late last year, Coleman asked Gov. Andy Beshear to sign a death warrant for Ralph Baze, one of the two dozen or so inmates on death row.
Beshear has not signed any death warrants as governor and vetoed a bill to streamline Kentucky’s death penalty. Lawmakers overrode the veto.
Baze has been on death row for more than three decades after he was convicted of killing a sheriff and a sheriff’s deputy. Coleman has asked a court to overrule Beshear.
