IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A parolee accused of two Iowa City killings has been has been convicted in the first of them. Johnson County court records say a jury found 42-year-old Curtis Jones guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder in the June 2017 slaying of a cab driver, 46-year-old Ricky Lillie. Jones is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 4 to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

He’s also accused of killing a 34-year-old bail bondsman, Jonathan Wieseler, in April 2017. His trial in that case is scheduled to begin Jan. 11. Both homicides occurred just months after Jones left prison in November 2016, years early on a robbery sentence. The parole board paroled Jones despite assessments that warned he was a high risk for committing additional violence.