Judge sets June 22 trial in crash fatal to 2 teens
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A judge set a June 22 trial date Tuesday for a man accused of drunken driving and slamming into a car on the Interstate 10 service road at the Picardy Avenue interchange in April, killing two Ascension Parish teenagers last spring.
Chris Michael Bourgeois, 57, is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of 15-year-old Ladarius Favorite of Geismar and 13-year-old Andre Queen of Prairieville.
Prosecutor Jesse Bankston and defense lawyer Steven Moore agreed to the trial date during a status hearing in state District Judge Lou Daniel’s court.
Favorite and Queen were passengers in the back seat of a Mazda 626 that was struck from behind by Bourgeois’ Toyota pickup truck April 6, Louisiana State Police said.
The car flipped several times before landing in a ditch, authorities said.
Bourgeois was traveling east on the I-10 service road between Bluebonnet Boulevard and Siegen Lane, State Police said.
Bourgeois was booked on two counts each of vehicular homicide and vehicular negligent injuring and one count of first-offense DWI and reckless operation after troopers smelled alcohol on his breath and he told them he had been drinking, an affidavit says.
Bourgeois also told troopers he had been taking more than five types of medication, according to the affidavit.
Bourgeois had a blood-alcohol content of 0.128 percent two hours after the crash, the affidavit says.
A blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent is considered presumptive evidence of intoxication.
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