Jury selection starts in 2009 abduction, slaying

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - The trial for an 18-year-old charged with kidnapping another man outside a Detroit area sub shop before shooting him to death at a drug house is to start in a Mount Clemens courtroom.

Jury selection in Ihab Maslamani's trial will begin Wednesday morning in Macomb County Circuit Court.

Maslamani and 17-year-old Robert Taylor are charged in the August 2009 abduction and slaying of 21-year-old Matt Landry of Chesterfield Township.

Landry was kidnapped at gunpoint in Eastpointe and held for four days in a vacant Detroit house before he was shot in the head.

Ihab Maslamani and Robert Taylor face several charges, including murder, kidnapping and carjacking. Taylor's trial is expected to start in late October.