82 deaths in EBR classified as homicides in 2008
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A Louisiana Technical College student walks into a classroom and guns down two women before killing herself.
A father allegedly stabs his two sons to death to get back at his estranged wife.
A DeQuincy man in town for a church service is shot while talking to his wife on a cell phone in what police suspect was an act of road rage.
A mother and her 3-year-old son are slain at a public park in front of two of her other children, who were then left there overnight by the attackers.
Those are among the 82 deaths in East Baton Rouge Parish last year classified as homicides.
Detectives with the Baton Rouge Police Department handled 66 of the cases. Deputies with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office investigated the remaining 16 killings.
The dates listed are the day an incident that caused a death occurred, which is not always the day a person died. Motives for killings are given when provided by law enforcement. Details of the crimes come from law enforcement agencies and prosecutors. Information about charges filed in the cases is current through Feb. 9.
East Baton Rouge Parish homicides in 2008
JAN. 19: Greg Eames Jr., 25, was gunned down while sitting in a parked vehicle with his girlfriend and 3-year-old son at 249 Richland Ave. Police say the motive for the shooting might have been domestic. Joshua Lacox, 23, 1543 N. 23 St., was charged with second-degree murder.
FEB. 3: William Griffin, 27, was shot in the head and body while trying to get into a vehicle during a fight outside Top Ten Social Club at 2453 N. Acadian Thruway West. Reginald Selders, 26, of 1235 N. 30th St. — a cousin of the man Griffin was fighting — was charged with second-degree murder.
FEB. 8: Taneshia Butler, 26 and Karsheika Graves, 21, were killed by a fellow student at Louisiana Technical College. Police said 23-year-old Latina Williams emptied a six-shot .357-caliber revolver into the women after walking into a classroom on the campus at 3250 N. Acadian Thruway East. Williams reloaded the weapon and fatally shot herself in the head. Police said Williams was living in her car and showing signs of paranoia before the shootings but don‘t know why she killed Butler and Graves.
FEB. 18: Terrance Perkins, 30, was found dead from a single gunshot wound at his home at 1342 Jasper Ave. No motive has been determined and no arrests have been made.
MARCH 15: Brent Cole, 39, of DeQuincy, was shot while driving in the Goodwood Boulevard area. Cole, who traveled weekly to Baton Rouge to play bass guitar at First Pentecostal Church, was apparently lost and on the phone with his wife when the shooting occurred. Police said road rage might have been the motive. James G. Barrow Jr., the 21-year-old son of a state representative, and Michael Smith Jr., 20, 2882 Saratoga Drive, were booked with principal to second-degree murder.
MARCH 16: Barry Heard, 19, was gunned down in the 1200 block of South 15th Street hours after serving as the best man in his father’s wedding. Perry Corner, a 38-year-old Hurricane Katrina evacuee from New Orleans, was charged with second-degree murder. Police believe the motive for the killing was revenge. Heard allegedly took something that belonged to Corner.
MARCH 23: Jesus Amilcar Gutierrez, 26, of El Salvador, was shot at point-blank range in his Mast Drive bedroom early Easter morning during an attempted robbery. Billy Moore, 26, 2239 Mariner Ave., was booked with first-degree murder. A 16-year-old boy, whose name was not released because of his age, was booked with principal to first-degree murder.
MARCH 26: Dexter Varise, 19, was shot in the 3000 block of Conrad Drive during a holdup. Police suspect Varise exchanged gunfire with his attackers before being killed. Sanchez Reddick, 19, 1056 N. Ardenwood Drive, Apt. D, was booked with first-degree murder. Another man accused in the incident is still on the loose.
MARCH 27: Jermaine Maurice Harrison, 22, was killed in a shootout in the 1400 block of N. Acadian Thruway. Police say it’s possible the person who shot Harrison was wounded. No arrests have been made.
APRIL 1: Rickey Ricardo Mitchell Jr., 20, was gunned down in the 2100 block of Dallas Drive. His body was found hanging out the door of a 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Police were called to a nearby club to break up fights prior to the shooting but don’t know if Mitchell was at the club or involved in the fights. It’s possible Mitchell wasn’t the intended target, police have said. No arrests have been made.
APRIL 12: James Arthur, 22, was shot multiple times near Bogan Walk and 30th Street. His body was found in the grass beside a gray Chevrolet Avalanche. Kevin D. Ford, 16, 3146 Washington Ave., was booked with second-degree murder.
APRIL 13: William Ridley, 31, was killed during a shootout with Cedric Pearson, 26, in the 6200 block of Silverleaf Avenue. Pearson also was killed in the incident. Sheriff’s deputies believe Ridley shot Pearson in self defense before being killed.
APRIL 14: Mona Green, 25, and her brother were wounded at their 5522 St. Gerard Ave. home in a drive-by shooting. Green died from her wounds four months later. Her brother survived. No one has been arrested.
APRIL 14: Robert Ellis, 39, was shot repeatedly while riding his bike in the 2500 block of Laurel Street. No arrests have been made.
APRIL 19: Phillip Robinson, 22, was shot 11 times in the back with a .40-caliber handgun on Jade Avenue after insinuating to his killer that he had a weapon, authorities said. Sheriff’s deputies did not find a gun on Robinson. Wendell Tyrone Smith, 22, 1970 Helm Drive, was charged with second-degree murder.
APRIL 19: Rosa Franklin, 49, and Tremayne Franklin, 26, were shot while sitting in a vehicle outside an apartment complex in the 12800 block of Brogdon Lane. The mother and son were from Sunshine and most likely knew who killed them, authorities said. Police suspect Rosa Franklin was an innocent bystander and her son the intended target. No arrests have been made.
APRIL 19: Ruben Osorio, 26, was shot multiple times in the 1200 block of West Azalea Park after stabbing another man during an argument over the payment for beer, authorities said. Jose Manuel Torres-Gomez, 30, and Sergio Mayo Gomas, 32, were booked with principal to second-degree murder. Sheriff’s deputies are still looking for Marcos De La Cruz Lara, 21, the alleged triggerman.
APRIL 24: Henry Reddicks, 19, was killed in the parking lot of Club Lucky during a shootout between two groups of people. Police determined the gunfire followed a fight that started inside the club at 1828 N. Foster Drive. Darren Keith Paul, 25, 3358 Sycamore St., was charged with second-degree murder.
APRIL 25: Willie Mitchell, 55, was shot in the 1400 block of 37th Street near Cain Road. Police searched a nearby house for the killer, but no one was located. No arrests have been made.
APRIL 26: James Coleman, 39, was shot in the head while driving in the 2500 block of 72nd Avenue. Police said the shooting occurred during an argument between Coleman and his estranged wife, Turishcheva Coleman, 35, 1925 68th Ave. She was charged with second-degree murder.
APRIL 30: Matthew Trahan, 20, of Lafayette, was killed during a robbery in the 4100 block of Uncas Street. The off-duty member of the Louisiana National Guard was shot multiple times and robbed of $240. Larry Murray, 19, 11251 Devall Lane, was charged with second-degree murder.
MAY 4: Marcus Tyson, 20, was found slumped over in a 2005 Toyota Scion in the parking lot of Sherwood Daiquiri at 1654 N. Sherwood Forest Drive. Tyson, who had been shot, died at the scene. No arrests have been made.
MAY 4: Jessica Johnson Palmer, 23, and her son, 3-year-old Juan Palmer Jr., were slain at Doyle’s Bayou Park on Pride-Port Hudson Road near Zachary. Two of Palmer’s other children, a 4-year-old and a 7-month-old, were left in the park overnight. The 4-year-old girl’s throat was cut, but she survived. The 7-month-old girl was not injured. The motive for the killings was love, money, or both, sheriff’s deputies said. Dominique Dantoni Smith, the father of the 4-year-old and a former boyfriend of Palmer’s, was charged with first-degree murder. Smith’s girlfriend, Trendall Lashel Matthews, was charged with the same crime.
MAY 22: India Richardson, 23, was shot in the head while riding her bicycle in the 2700 block of Lobelia Avenue. Richardson died five days later. She is one of four women killed in 2008 in a four-block area in north Baton Rouge. No arrests have been made.
MAY 24: Brandon Augustus, 23, was shot at a residence in the 6000 block of Blueberry Street. A 20-year-old woman was wounded in the shooting. No arrests have been made.
MAY 26: Duan Gayton, 18, was found lying on the ground at Jackson Square Apartments at 6777 Rembrandt Ave. Police suspect Gayton was involved in a fight in the complex’s parking lot before being shot. A 16-year-old boy was placed into juvenile detention on a count of second-degree murder.
MAY 28: Donald Thomas, 19, was shot while walking between buildings at Magnolia Trace Apartments at 11585 N. Harrell’s Ferry Road. No arrests have been made.
JUNE 6: Marcos Cabrera, 32, was shot in the 1700 block of Jade Avenue after refusing to give two robbers money. Dewayne Spencer Coleman, 21, 1680 Besson Lane, St. Gabriel, and Tyrell Leonard Brooks, 20, 2029 Jasper Ave., were booked with first-degree murder.
JUNE 15: Larry Brown Jr., 36, was stabbed in the 8000 block of Skysail Avenue during an argument with a man who thought Brown was seeing his girlfriend, authorities said. Johnel Mathews, 42, 8042 Skysail Ave., was booked with second-degree murder.
JUNE 17: Jonathan L. Edwards, 46, of Zachary, was found stabbed to death in a vacant lot in the 3200 block of Hiawatha Street. He had been missing since June 14. No arrests have been made.
JUNE 21: Jason Hodges, 39, was shot in the chest during an attempted robbery in the 11000 block of Catalpa Street. Two men stopped Hodges as he was driving along Catalpa. Hodges was shot as he tried to drive off. Jared Williams, 19, 1818 N. Marque Ann Drive, was booked with first-degree murder.
JUNE 21: Fredrick Smith, 43, was shot in the neck in the 5200 block of Cadillac Street. He died of his wounds Christmas week. Marvin O’Conner, 26, 5054 Shelly St., was booked with second-degree murder.
JUNE 27: Labaron Anthony Napoleon, 26, of St. James, was shot and dumped in the 1500 block of Madison Avenue. Christopher Taylor, 22, 4307 Breckenridge Drive, Baker, is wanted in the killing.
JULY 5: Calvin Robinson, 46, was found shot in the chest in the 2600 block of Jefferson Street and died later in the day. No arrests have been made.
JULY 10: Kevin Montrell Collins, 33, was found shot on the kitchen floor of his home at 2551 Oleander St. He later died at a hospital. Tangie Swanson, 37, was accused of killing Collins, police say, but Swanson was fatally shot on Aug. 14 before she could be arrested.
JULY 12: Jeremy Greene, 21, was shot in the head at Hollywood Mobile Home Park at 4508 Hollywood St. after a dispute over the theft of a stolen gun. Christopher George, 23, 6015 Maplewood Drive, was booked with accessory to first-degree murder. The killer has not been identified.
JULY 20: Anthony Hall, 22, was shot several times during an altercation at 15140 Azalea Park Ave. Rodrick Dewayne Coleman, 31, 3262 Wyoming St., was booked with second-degree murder.
JULY 23: Algina Causey, 24, was shot while sitting on the front porch of her home at 237 Brice St. Before Causey died, she identified her killer. Steven Aaron, 19, 2561 Jura St., was booked with first-degree murder.
JULY 26: Nola Pierce, 25, and her 12-year-old daughter Ametria Pierce were shot in their home at 2741 Rachael Ave. The shooting occurred during a dispute between Nola Pierce and her former boyfriend, Troy Harris. She had broken up with Harris two days earlier after discovering he was married. Harris, 47, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
AUG. 3: Lucious Hargrove, 38, was taken off life support and died a day after being punched in the head during a fight with another man at 3321 Tecumseh St. Jeremy Jerome Butler, 19, 3612 Alliquippa St., was charged with manslaughter.
AUG. 7: Mark Castle, 41, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the 1100 block of West Grant Street. Tangie Swanson, 37, was accused of killing Castle, police say, but she was fatally shot Aug. 14 before she could be arrested.
AUG. 13: Jonah Lewis, 26, was found lying in the 800 block of North 46th Street with a gunshot wound to his head. He died two days later. No arrests have been made.
AUG. 14: Tangie Swanson, 37, was shot while standing in the parking lot of a corner grocery store at 945 East Blvd. Police suspect the shooting was a hit. Swanson was a suspect in two separate killings earlier in the summer. No arrests have been made.
AUG. 18: Jimmy Eugene Helm, 29, was shot in the parking lot of his apartment complex, Brandywine Condominiums at 10950 Darryl Drive. Ramond Wilford, 22, was booked with second-degree murder.
AUG. 23: Mia Reid, 31, was shot in front of her 10-year-old daughter in her Scotlandville apartment at 1188 Rosenwald Road. Reid’s ex-fiancé, Frederick Dominique Reed Jr., 38, 13842 Chalmette St., was charged with second-degree murder.
SEPT. 4: Isaac Selders, 22, was shot several times while walking to a vehicle in the 1700 block of North 35th Street. He later died at a hospital. Larry Reed, 18, was booked with first-degree murder.
SEPT. 6: Larry Taylor, 34, was found shot lying in the 3500 block of Geronimo Street. Warren Dantell Rogers, 29, was booked with second-degree murder.
SEPT. 8: Gabrielle Watkins, 5, and her mother, Mashariki Watkins, 34, were found shot in their home at 3672 Eaton St. in an apparent murder-suicide. Police said Watkins was having marital and financial difficulties.
SEPT. 9: Jimmy Bordelon, 61, was found beaten to death in a room at the Bellemont Hotel at 7370 Airline Highway, where he had lived for two years. Zachary Campus James, 48, who also lived at the hotel, was booked with first-degree murder.
SEPT. 20: Ivy Lynn Thomas, 32, was shot in the 1600 block of Kaufman Street and later died at a hospital. No arrests have been made.
SEPT. 21: Joshua Felton, 18, was shot while standing in a parking lot near Club Shenanigans at 2377 N. Flannery Road. He died two days later. No arrests have been made.
SEPT. 24: Byron Keith Dabney, 48, was shot in the head near his mother’s home at 2573 75th Ave. Reginald Baker, 26, 2424 Lark St., was booked with second-degree murder. Police suspect Baker was upset about threats Dabney made to his former girlfriend, who is Baker’s cousin.
OCT. 1: James Ausbon, 15, was shot in the head after getting off a school bus at Mariner Drive and Keel Avenue. The shooting might have stemmed from an argument Ausbon had with Darius Dowell the night before the shooting, deputies said. Dowell, 15, was charged with second-degree murder.
OCT. 3: Bernard Jolivette, 33, was shot while standing outside his home at 3241 Aliquippa St. Lee Andrew Bradley, 22, 2005 N. 38th St. was booked with first-degree murder.
OCT. 5: Tayshaun Murphy, 2, and Juwan Murphy, 8, were stabbed at their Bluebonnet Towers home on the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries campus. Their father, Clayton Lee Murphy Jr., 30, was charged with first-degree murder. Authorities said Murphy killed his sons to get back at his estranged wife.
OCT. 14: Cedric Wright, 26, was gunned down during an argument with a man in the 1300 block of Thomas H. Delpit Drive. Deshun Ennis, 31, 952 Terrace Ave. was booked with second-degree murder. Ennis is the son of a 52-year-old man wounded in a related shooting about an hour after Wright was killed.
OCT. 19: Gerald Parker, 23, was shot in the chest and the leg during an argument outside the T&W Mini Market liquor store at 24110 Reames Road near Zachary. He was taken off life support four days later. Elliot Joseph Howard, 21, 252 Howard Jackson Lane, Slaughter, was charged with second-degree murder.
OCT. 19: Julio Cesar Garcia, 45, was shot in the 1200 block of West Chimes Street during a possible robbery. He died Nov. 2. No arrests have been made.
OCT. 27: Larb Singleton III, 23, was found shot near his home on Cadillac Street and later died at a hospital. A 16-year-old boy has been accused of first-degree murder in the killing. Police suspect Singleton’s death could be tied to four other fatal shootings that occurred from mid-October to mid-November.
NOV. 1: John E. Capdeville, 34, was shot near the intersection of Skysail Avenue and Mariner Drive. Capdeville knocked on a neighbor’s door asking for help and later died at a hospital. Capdeville was not able to explain to the neighbor what happened, deputies said. No arrests have been made.
NOV. 7: Michael Edwards, 21, was shot in the parking lot of Ted’s Barbershop at 2701 N. Acadian Thruway East. Authorities said the killing might be linked to four other fatal shootings between mid-October and mid-November. No arrests have been made.
NOV. 8: Darrius ‘Truell’ Reed, 27, was shot in his home at 2966 Sycamore St. by an intruder. Authorities said the killing might be linked to four other fatal shootings between mid-October and mid-November. No arrests have been made.
NOV. 10: Zywaski Hatch, 22, was shot while sitting in a car in the 1200 block of North 39th Street. She died three days later. Police said Hatch was an innocent bystander and her killing might be linked to four other fatal shootings between mid-October and mid-November. No arrests have been made.
NOV. 11: Michael Dwayne Alexander, 36, was killed during a shootout at a party at 9728 Avenue M in Scotlandville. Keyma Palmer, 34, who also died in the gunfire, allegedly fired the shots that killed Alexander. Police considered Palmer the instigator.
NOV. 15: Warrie Rowley, 33, was gunned down inside Ted’s Barbershop at 2701 N. Acadian Thruway East. Authorities said the killing might be linked to four other fatal shootings between mid-October and mid-November. No arrests have been made.
NOV. 22: Devin Tate, 20, was shot multiple times in the 5700 block of Sterns Street during an argument. Korey Jackson, 21, 4658 Packard St., was booked with second-degree murder.
NOV. 26: Marcus Deray Chinn, 19, was shot while sitting in a tan-colored Monte Carlo outside Avery’s Mini Mart at 5521 McClelland Drive. No arrests have been made.
DEC. 8: Henry Nicholas Sterling, 18, was gunned down behind a residence at 2566 Tennessee St. No arrests have been made.
DEC. 9: Doug Lewis, 41, and Raquel Jackson, 36, were slain in the 5000 block of Enterprise Street. Police found Lewis in a yard on Enterprise Street and Jackson lying in the road. Both had been shot several times. No arrests have been made.
DEC. 14: Clarence Gildon III, 37, was found fatally shot in the parking lot of Club Webb at 2366 Monte Sano Ave. No arrests have been made.
DEC. 14: Jesse Smith, 25, was shot in the stomach at his home at 1737 LaAnnie Drive. He died later at a hospital. No arrests have been made.
DEC. 19: Tyrone St. Cyr, 18, was gunned down in the 1000 block of South 15th Street. A United Parcel Service employee found his body lying in the road. Police released a sketch of a man seen leaving the area, but no arrests have been made.
DEC. 22: Karl Wayne Ridgley Brown, 20, was shot in the back while sitting in a Kia Optima in the 11400 block of Pamela Drive. Lamar Deray Sanders, 19, 11742 Pamela, was booked with first-degree murder. Police say Sanders and his girlfriend — the driver of the Kia — got into an argument in front of Sanders’ home. As she tried to drive away, shots were fired at the Kia, striking Brown and missing the girlfriend.
DEC. 23: Cary Dungan, 51, was killed in a shootout during an attempted armed robbery in the 3000 block of North Sherwood Forest Drive. Joshua Sadler, 27, 1178 W. Roosevelt St., was booked with first-degree murder. Sadler’s girlfriend, Kasey Atkinson, 27, also of 1178 W. Roosevelt St., was booked with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.
DEC. 29: Reginal Parker, 23, and Tywin Alexander, 23, were shot at Parker’s residence at 5515 Shelly Court. Parker’s cousin, Cherahkei Parker, 20, of 279 Jeff Davis St., was booked with first-degree murder. Police said the shooting followed a fight between Cherahkei Parker and at least one of the victims.
OTHER DEATHS
Law enforcement agencies in East Baton Rouge Parish pursued criminal charges in 15 accidental or drunken driving deaths and handled two others in which fatal shots were fired in self-defense.
JAN. 16: Andrew Scott Carter, 45, died when the Toyota Camry he was riding in hit two traffic barriers on Airline Highway and flipped. The driver, Donavon Tyquincy Parker, 26, 1148‰ Avenue A, Port Allen, was booked with negligent homicide.
JAN. 24: Eun-Woo Nho, 7, died after a Chevrolet Lumina crashed into the Ford Windstar the child was riding in on Nicholson Drive near South Stadium Drive. The driver of the Lumina, Kendell Morgan, 22, was trying to pass the Windstar in a no-passing zone, State Police said. Morgan, 4312 Glen Oaks Drive, was booked with negligent homicide.
FEB. 21: Carlena M. Watson, 32, was killed after being hit by
a red Dodge pickup while walking on Hooper Road east of Plank Road. The driver, Ronald F. Shearon Jr., 33, 15344 Crystal Drive, Pride, pleaded guilty to hit-and-run driving involving a death and was sentenced to five years in prison.
APRIL 6: Ladarius Favorite, 15 and Andre Queen, 13, were killed when a Toyota pickup slammed into the back of the Mazda they were riding in on the Interstate 10 service road at the Picardy Avenue interchange. The man driving the pickup, Chris Michael Bourgeois, 57, 110 Middleton Drive, Peachtree, Ga., was charged with vehicular homicide and 1st-offense DWI.
APRIL 29: Cory George, 18, was shot in the chest at a home in the 1000 block of America Street when a gun that a 14-year-old boy was playing with went off accidentally, police said. The boy was placed into juvenile detention on a count of negligent homicide.
MAY 26: Tommy L.
Eackels, 51, died when he was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk in the 5100 block of Hollywood Street. Kathleen Harrison, the driver, pleaded guilty in October to vehicular homicide. Police say she confessed to drinking a pint of gin the day of the incident.
JULY 3: Jeremy Borne, 33, of Port Allen, was killed in a car crash on an Interstate 110 exit ramp to Airline Highway. The Saturn he was riding in hit another vehicle on the ramp, causing the spare tire in the Saturn’s trunk to break through the backseat and ricochet off the windshield, hitting him in the chest, authorities said. The driver of the Saturn, Jason Cedotal, 32, 2090 U.S. 190, was booked with vehicular homicide.
JULY 18: Geraldo Hierrezuelo, 33, was shot during a struggle with a man he was trying to rob at a Gardere Lane residence. The man who shot Hierrezuelo did so in self-defense and was not arrested, deputies said.
JULY 29: Phillip Van Alstine, 36, Shyla Van Alstine, 34, and Haylie Van Alstine, 7, were killed in a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 12 just west of the Amite River. The Mississippi family was in Baton Rouge on summer vacation. Authorities accused a trucker, James C. Lane, 40, 7534 Quorum Drive, of causing the crash by driving too fast while hauling an almost 70,000-pound load. Lane was booked with negligent homicide.
SEPT. 13: Latoya Wilson, 27, was shot while sitting in a car on 72nd Avenue, caught in a shootout between two men, police said. The man who fired the bullet that killed Wilson was not arrested because he shot at the other man in self-defense, authorities said.
SEPT. 19: Dereke Michael Perry, 35, was shot when another man’s gun discharged accidentally during an argument in the 1400 block of Forestgrove Avenue in Central. Carlos Manuel Lainez, 35, 7615 Magnolia Beach Road, Denham Springs, was booked with manslaughter. A grand jury declined to indict him.
SEPT. 30: Roy Breland, 45, died six days after being beaten with a stick outside the Racetrax gas station at 7102 Siegen Lane. Deputies determined the beating occurred during an argument with a man over food stamps. Neal Wade Huff, 45, was charged with manslaughter. Deputies said Huff didn’t intend to kill Breland.
NOV. 22: Eric Brooks, 27, was shot in the head outside 5054 Adams St. Brooks was killed when a gun Tyrone Williams Jr. was attempting to clear went off accidentally, police said. Williams, 33, 936 Donmoor Ave., was booked with negligent homicide. Darryl Damarkiss Tolliver, 21, 4368 Lorraine St., was booked with accessory after the fact for allegedly driving Williams away from the shooting and taking the gun.
DEC. 3: William Browning, 78, died from injuries suffered in a three-vehicle crash on Plank Road while being driven back to a nursing home. Authorities said Sharon Smith, 49, 19019 S. Harrell’s Ferry Road, rear-ended a vehicle that crashed into the one Browning was riding in. Smith was booked with negligent homicide.
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