Bronson Joyce, charged in weekend double homicide, told police he was putting crack user ‘out of his misery’

Broson Joyce told detectives that he committed a double homicide for two reasons: (1) One of the victims was infected with AIDS and was spreading the disease to multiple partners, and (2) the other victim was a crack cocaine user.
Joyce, 19, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in last weekend’s double homicide of 42-year-old Alphonso Nicholson and 52-year-old Claude Carson. Nicholson and Carson were found shot to death inside an apartment in the 2500 block of Benton around 6:33 a.m. Saturday.