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Kerry Alexander, 37, was convicted last year on two counts of second-degree murder for killing two people in Lafourche Parish 2018.

A Louisiana appeals court is reviewing the case of a Raceland man convicted of killing two people in 2018.

Mike Swafford, spokesman for the Morgan County jail in Alabama, said a man being booked into the lockup wound up at the hospital after a body scan during admission revealed a shell from a .410-gauge shotgun in his abdomen.

A state appeal court has upheld a Louisiana man’s conviction and consecutive life sentences for a double murder in December 2018.

THIBODAUX, La (AP) — A state appeal court has upheld a Louisiana man’s conviction and...

THIBODAUX, La (AP) — A state appeal court has upheld a Louisiana man’s conviction and...

A Raceland man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after being convicted of killing two people in 2018.

Judge rejects Raceland mans request for new trial in double murder A judge has denied a Raceland man’s request for a new trial after he was convicted of killing two men in 2018.  A jury on June 23 found Kerry Alexander, 36, guilty of two counts of second-degree murder following three days of testimony and about an hour of deliberation. He was convicted of killing Marcel Turner, 26, of Thibodaux, and Jeremiah Ballard, 23, of Raceland.   The defendant’s brother, Jerrell Alexander, 31, was...

A Raceland man faces a mandatory life sentence after he was convicted Wednesday evening of killing two men in 2018.

Double murder trial begins in Lafourche A double murder trial is underway in Lafourche for a Raceland man accused of shooting two men to death in 2018.  Kerry Alexander, 36, is facing two counts of second-degree murder in the Dec. 15, 2018, shooting deaths of 26-year-old Marcel Turner, of Thibodaux, and 23-year-old Jeremiah Ballard, of Raceland.  The defendant’s brother, Jerrell Alexander, 31, was convicted in the murders Dec. 19, 2019, and was sentenced to life in prison.   If convic...