ROCHESTER (AP) - A former anti-violence activist has been charged with killing a suspected drug dealer in rural Western New York in 1992.

Joyce Powell and Shaliq Reed pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Batavia Dec. 21 in the slaying of John Rutledge. The 37-year-old was found shot in a ditch in the town of Carlton on June 6, 1992.

State police allege that all three were involved in the drug trade in Rochester and Buffalo. Attorneys for Powell and Reed haven't been appointed yet.

Powell was convicted of assault and burglary in 2007 after a woman was tossed through a window at her home and suffered a fractured spine. She organized anti-violence marches beginning in the late 1990s. Her son was killed in a drug dispute in 2000.