3 arrested, 1 sought in connection with homicide in Violet Share Updated: 4:37 PM CST Jan 12, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 4:37 PM CST Jan 12, 2021
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Show Transcript HAPPEN. I AM TRAVERS MACKEL, WDSU NEWS. GINA: TRAVERS, THANK YOU. NEW AT 4:00, THREE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED UP, ACCUSED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A MAN AND A FOURTH PERSON IS ON THE RUN THIS AFTERNOON. THE ST. BERNARD SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 33-YEAR-OLD KENTREL RICHARD, 26-YEAR-OLD KEVIN BRUMFIELD, AND 35-YEAR-OLD KAYLA BENTLEY ARE ALL CONNECTED TO THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A 32-YEAR-OLD MAN. DEPUTIES SAY IT HAPPENED ON JANUARY THIRD IN 2200 BLOCK OF CALUDA LANE IN VIOLE DEPUTY SAY, RIGHT NOW, 35-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN BARTHELEMY IS ON THE RUN. HIS LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS IN THE 6600 BLOCK OF CINDY PLACE IN NEW ORLEANS. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON BARTHELEMY’S
In the year since 18-year-old Gregory Alexander was shot and killed on a Chalmette street on Christmas Eve 2019, his mother, Lakecha Shedrick, said three of his friends, including a pallbearer at his funeral, have also died in gunfire.
The grim tally weighs heavily on Shedrick, 41, as it does for so many other mothers in the New Orleans area. She made no excuses for her son, who authorities believe died in a triple shooting during a drug deal gone awry. Despite all she d done to help him make the right choices, he d drifted toward people and a lifestyle that she said ultimately led to his death.Â
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A Chalmette man led St. Bernard Parish Sheriffâs Office deputies on a chase in a stolen truck early Sunday that ended when they used spike strips to stop him, the agency said.
Deputies said they arrested Woodrow Reed III, 55, after a pursuit that began when they spotted him with a 2017 Ford F-150 bearing an unreadable temporary tag about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. They tried to stop him but he sped through a residential neighborhood, ramming two patrol vehicles along the way, the Sheriffâs Office said.
Deputies used spike strips to disable the truck near a vacant lot at Delambert Drive and East Genie Street in Chalmette, the agency said. Reed fled on foot but deputies caught up with him and arrested him, according to the Sheriffâs Office.
Updated: 4:12 PM CST December 12, 2020
ST BERNARD, La. The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested two middle schoolers for having a firearm in their possession on a school campus Friday, officials said.
In a Facebook post, SBSO officials said at about 2:30, they responded to a call of students having a weapon on campus of a St. Bernard Parish public middle school.
During the investigation, detectives found out a 13 -year-old-boy brought the gun to school and asked a 14-year-old girl to hold it for him.
The sheriff s office booked the two students at the St. Bernard Parish Juvenile Detention Center, on charges of carrying a firearm or dangerous weapon by a student or nonstudent on school property.