Men booked in ’07 slaying have bond set
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Two men initially booked into Parish Prison on a first-degree murder charge in an October 2007 murder were granted $250,000 bonds Tuesday on a reduced charge.
State District Judge Wilson Fields granted the bonds for Denako Duheart, 23, and Andrea Deon Williams, 39, after both men pleaded not guilty to the reduced charge of attempted second-degree murder in the death of Jason Fourmy. Duheart’s younger brother Dearius Duheart, 19, also charged in the crime, was granted the same bond on April 23 on the same reduced charge.
The Duheart brothers both of 1151 N. 39 St. and Williams, 6140 W. Monarch Ave., were initially denied bond on the first-degree murder charge. Prosecutor Mark Pethke has said the charges were reduced to attempted second-degree murder because two witnesses were killed in November 2007.
Baton Rouge police said Fourmy, 39, was held hostage for a day or longer and beaten on Oct. 29. Fourmy was then dragged alive but unconscious to a wooded area in the 1400 block of Gayosa Street where he was set on fire, police have said.
A city-parish Public Works employee found Fourmy’s body on Halloween.
Williams and the Duheart brothers are scheduled to return to court on Aug. 6.
