The phrase "a killer named" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a character or person, particularly in a narrative or descriptive context, often in crime or thriller genres.
Example: "In the small town, there was a killer named Jack who evaded capture for years."
Alternatives: "a murderer called" or "a criminal known as".
Lee had once been beaten by the horizon in Waco, working freelance for the governor, tracking a killer named Newfield.
Then comes a title card ("The Mid-1990's") and a grisly scene in which a killer named the Professional is torturing a rival gangster in a morgue.
We know that he is now a marked man; indeed, a killer named Anton Chigurh — it is he who opens the book by strangling the deputy — is on his trail.
Impossibly bored and stylishly shallow, Allison (Tanya Fischer) and Angela Lisa Joycee) decide that chasing down the reward money for a killer named Ed prowling the streets of New York is the best way to avoid gainful employment.
"Saw," the franchise built around a killer named Jigsaw, is still going strong, but a glut of torture-themed movies, many of them cheap copycats, has left horror audiences with been-there, seen-that syndrome.
The only mental patient left behind at the high security ward of Al Rashad state hospital is a killer named Ali Sabah, a former math and science teacher with jet black hair and dark, searching eyes.
Set amid that city's postwar rubble and based on the historical case of a serial killer named Kodaira Yoshio (a k a "the Japanese Bluebeard"), the book is narrated by Inspector Minami, who on the day of Japan's surrender to the Allies is summoned to an air raid shelter where a woman's body has been discovered.
Nearly 14 years ago the state of Georgia asked two psychologists and a psychiatrist to evaluate a convicted killer named Warren Lee Hill Jr., who had filed a legal challenge to his death sentence on the grounds that he lacked sufficient intellectual capacity to understand why Georgia wanted him dead.
The novel features an original plot involving the Outlaw Star crew pursuing a serial killer named Billy McAglen in a mining town called El Dorado.
In The Shadow of the Templars, American George Stobbart, who is touring Europe, is a witness and victim of a bomb attack on a Parisian café "La Chandelle Verte", caused by a clown, later revealed to be a serial killer named Khan, who steals an old man's briefcase and then sets off a bomb inside the café.
In only one of the earlier cases, involving a Brooklyn killer named Darrell Harris, did a jury impose the death penalty.
