CROWN POINT, Ind. — A Tennessee man faced a judge for the first time Wednesday in the 1992 killing of a woman and her daughter in Gary.
Victor Lofton is charged with two counts of murder after DNA analyzed by State Police recently linked Lofton to the murders of Felicia Howard and her four-year-old daughter, DenNisha, 28 years ago.
Not guilty pleas to both counts were entered on Lofton’s behalf by a magistrate.
Investigators say Lofton likely shot the mother and daughter while he was living with a relative in Gary in 1992. That relative said Lofton owned a .380 caliber while Lofton stayed with him.
Investigators say Lofton was born in East Chicago and moved to Tennessee not long after the murders happened.
Police visited him at his home in Tennessee in September of last year where he agreed to a DNA sample. The sample matched evidence from a sexual assault kit.
He’ll be back in court next Wednesday, Feb. 24.
