Man charged with third homicide

The suspect was also charged with a shooting that the victim survived.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man charged in two murders, including one caught on tape by security cameras, was charged in a third killing, police said Wednesday.
Juan Covington, 43, was charged with murdering Odies Bosket, a longtime city employee who was shot several times in a subway station in March while on his way to pick up his daughter from day care.
Also Wednesday, police announced that Covington was charged in the May 2003 shooting of David Stewart, who survived an attack that left him with eight gunshot wounds.
The new charges against Covington were filed Tuesday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson said.
Covington, of the Logan section of Philadelphia, had previously been charged in the on-camera slaying of hospital technician Patricia McDermott in May and the killing of his cousin, the Rev. Thomas Lee Devlin, in 1998.
Soon after his arrest, Covington allegedly told police that McDermott zapped him with radiation and used "psychotropics" to stalk him, and that the Rev. Mr. Devlin -- who was gunned down during a service at Divine Shepherd Baptist Church -- used "witchcraft" to make his head ooze and his gums bleed.
Johnson said there was no apparent motive.
Covington's lawyer, A. Charles Peruto Jr., reiterated that he thinks his client is mentally ill.
The slayings of Mr. Devlin and Bosket, as well as Stewart's wounding, attracted little attention when the crimes happened. The shootings were in parts of the city were murders are not unusual, but McDermott was killed in the central business district as she stepped off a city bus to go to work.
Some speculated McDermott's story got so much more attention because she was white and the other victims were black.
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