PORT NEW RICHEY, Fla., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A self-confessed neo-Nazi on trial next week in Florida for murder will have a makeup artist cover tattoos he got after his alleged crimes, police say.
When John Ditullio Jr. goes to court on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder, he'll do so without jurors seeing the tattoos he obtained after the day the attacks occurred, The Tampa Tribune reported.
Pasco County Circuit Judge Michael Andrews granted a defense motion to hide any potentially prejudicial tattoos, the newspaper reported Friday. A makeup artist will come in every day to cover tattoos of a swastika and an expletive on his neck and a slash and teardrop on his face. Other facial tattoos will remain.
Ditullio, 23, allegedly stabbed neighbor Patricia Wells on March 23, 2006, because she was dating a black man. She survived. But a friend of her son that he also allegedly stabbed because he was gay, Kristopher King, 17, died, the Tribune reported.
Ditullio faces a possible death sentence if found guilty of first-degree murder.
