NJ serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver faces new murder charge

Convicted New Jersey serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is facing a new murder charge for the death of a Newark teenager.

Charges against Khalil Wheeler-Weaver

Wheeler-Weaver is accused of killing 15-year-old Mawa Doumbia, who was last seen in 2016. Her remains were found three years later.

Investigators purport Wheeler-Weaver strangled the teen after meeting her online and arranging to meet in person.

Wheeler-Weaver pleaded not guilty Wednesday (Oct. 26th) to the killing of Doumbi.

What authorities think what happened to Mawa Doumbia

Doumbia’s father and sister last saw her leaving their home on the evening of Oct. 7, 2016, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Family members reported her missing, but authorities couldn’t find her at the time.

Mawa Doumbia Newark teen

In April of 2019, authorities investigated the discovery of decomposing remains at a carriage house in Orange, the prosecutor’s office said. An autopsy found the person had been killed by “ligature strangulation”, the report stated.

In November of last year, the remains were identified as Doumbia’s, the prosecutor’s office said.

“Following an investigation involving extensive digital evidence, it was determined that on Oct. 7, 2016, Wheeler-Weaver met the young girl online and solicited her to meet him in person for sex,” the prosecutor’s office wrote in an announcement last week. “It is alleged that he traveled to the area of her residence then to the murder scene where he strangled her to death and left her remains concealed within the vacant building.”

Convicted of other murders

Wheeler-Weaver was convicted in 2019 of killing Sarah Butler, 20, Robin West, 19, and Joanne Brown, 33 — and the attempted murder of a 34-year-old woman, Tiffany Taylor, who survived his attack. He was sentenced in October to 160 years in prison.

Under the No Early Release Act, Wheeler-Weaver must serve 145 years of his 160-year sentence before he is eligible for parole.