STILLWATER, Minn. – A man already imprisoned in Minnesota for murder has been sentenced to life behind bars after admitting to killing a guard in 2018.Edward Muhammad Johnson, 44, pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder for killing Joseph Gomm.
A judge immediately sentenced him under a state law that makes a life sentence mandatory for first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
Johnson entered his plea via video conference from the maximum-security prison at Oak Park Heights. He said he had checked out a hammer on July 18, 2018, from the metal shop at the Stillwater prison, where he was incarcerated, and hit Gomm in the head, “twice, I believe.”Johnson said he meant to kill Gomm, who was supervising inmates in the metal shop..