TAMPA - A federal grand jury has indicted a second man in the 1998 slaying of Haines City police Officer Christopher Horner, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Andre T. Paige, 24, could face the death penalty if convicted. He was jailed in Hillsborough County without bail.
Paige, who listed his last home as Eufaula, Ala., has been in jail since April on federal weapons charges.
The indictment also charges Paige with a series of robberies of Polk County businesses in 1998.
Prosecutors say they think Horner was shot to death when he happened upon a meeting of robbers who had been hitting area businesses.
Horner, a 35-year-old father of six, was found shot to death in a cemetery about 30 minutes after he radioed a dispatcher that he was checking on a suspicious car. He was shot once in the back of the head with his own police handgun.
Last month, Christopher B. Gamble, 27, plead guilty to charges stemming from the slaying and faces life in federal prison when he is sentenced in November. Gamble agreed to testify against others involved, prosecutors said.
Gamble's statement said he put the gun under Horner's body to make it look like a suicide.
