PANAMA CITY — A man who was convicted of assisting in a murder in 2006 was back in court Friday, according to court records.
Eric Anthony Baker Jr., 27, was arrested Thursday on a charge of domestic battery after officers found his girlfriend of two years with several lacerations on her face, according to arrest records.
Baker and his 21-year-old girlfriend broke up the previous evening before he was rearrested Thursday. Police said at about 8:45 a.m. he pushed her to the ground at an East Fifth Street apartment and struck her in the face several times. The two had been in a relationship for two years, the woman told officers.
Baker denied being involved when police caught him fleeing the scene on a bicycle. He had a thick red liquid on his face and left sock, consistent with blood splatter, police reported.
In 2006, Baker was found guilty of accessory to second-degree murder with a firearm and sentenced to eight years in prison to be followed by probation. He was found guilty of aiding and abetting Daryl Black, 27, of shooting Woodrow Cherry multiple times in the head, according to court records.
Baker drove Black to Callaway where Black got into a car with Cherry and shot him several times in the head in the area of Berthe Avenue. Baker then drove Black to Parker and helped conceal the murder weapon.
Baker is now being held without bond, court records indicated, for violation of probation.