Grand jury charges 3 in 2 slayings

• Advocate Acadiana bureau
• Published: Oct 8, 2009 - Page: 2BA

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LAFAYETTE — A grand jury Wednesday indicted three men in two separate and unrelated killings earlier this year.

Troydell Simmons, 20, of Carencro, was indicted on a charge of second-degree murder of 41-year-old Mark A. Boutin, of Carencro.

Simmons allegedly shot Boutin once in the head with a 9mm handgun while attempting to rob him July 2 in Carencro, police said after his arrest.

The shooting occurred in the 700 block of Fado Street. Boutin was found on the ground next to a vehicle.

It was the second homicide Carencro police had worked since 2003 and the first since 2007, according to police.

A grand jury also indicted Marcus Polk, 28, on a charge of second-degree murder in the Aug. 2 shooting death of 19-year-old Timothier Kenmora Welcome.

Polk allegedly shot Kenmora while he drove away from a downtown parking lot in a red 2001 Lincoln Continental that belonged to Polk, police said at the time of his arrest.

Welcome drove about a block before crashing into a building at the train depot in downtown Lafayette.

A grand jury indicted Kendell Isaiah LeBlanc, 22, of St. Martinville, on a charge of accessory after the fact for allegedly driving Polk away from the scene.

A grand jury also returned an indictment on Jason Paul Reaux, 29, of Lafayette, who is charged with committing lewd and lascivious acts with two juveniles between Nov. 1, 2008, and July 12, 2009.

A grand jury also returned three no true bills, or non-indictments. The grand jury declined to indict:

• Taylor E. Wiggins, who had been a suspect in the deaths of Jeffery McBay and Christopher Bryan Curtis and the injuring of William Mathews on Sept. 2, 2008.
• Brock Christopher Angelle, who had been a suspect in the death of Joseph Castex on June 9.
• Robert J. Boudreaux, who had been accused of lewd and lascivious acts with a juvenile stemming from allegations of two incidents between Feb. 25, 2000, and April 30, 2009.