Third witness in beating, burning death slain
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East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore confirmed today that a third witness in the 2007 beating and burning death of 39-year-old Jason Fourmy has been killed.
Moore said the body of 33-year-old Shelva Sherica Glasper was found over the weekend in a ditch. She had been shot in the head, he said.
“It’s really disheartening,’’ he said. “We’re not sure of the relationship to this case but we’re looking.’’
Moore said authorities have no suspects in Glasper’s death.
Glasper was a witness to Fourmy’s beating in October 2007, he said.
Brothers Dearius and Denako Duheart and Andrea Williams initially were charged with first-degree murder in Fourmy’s death, but the charges were reduced to attempted second-degree murder last year because two witnesses were slain in November 2007.
The charges have since been reduced to second-degree battery.
The Duhearts and Williams are scheduled to stand trial Sept. 21.
State District Judge Trudy White released Williams from his bond obligations today because 120 days had passed since his attorney, Fred Kroenke, filed a motion for a speedy trial.
The trial has been pushed back several times at the request of prosecutors because of witness problems.
Dearius Duheart is free on bond. Denako Duheart is currently in Parish Prison.
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