HAMMOND – Deputies arrested an 18-year-old in connection to a lethal capturing of an Arkansas resident Saturday morning.
Tangipahoa Parish Chief Jimmy Travis says deputies responded to the Purple Roof Plus on Puma Drive shortly earlier than 8 a.m. Upon arrival, they discovered 62-year-old Paul Holt with a gunshot wound to his chest. Holt later died at a hospital.
In keeping with the Sheriff’s Workplace, Holt was shot after being carjacked by a masked man, later recognized as Ladarrius Evans.
As Holt and his spouse had been moving into their car, Evans entered the car and tried to depart with Holt’s spouse. Holt efficiently received her out earlier than Evans shot him and fled within the stolen car.
Investigators later positioned the car and recognized Evans because the suspect. Evans confessed to the crime after being positioned.
Evans was present in possession of things belonging to the victims, together with clothes and different gadgets used within the crime. Among the many gadgets was a “Ghost Gun” with a Glock Swap.
Evans was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish jail on prices of first diploma homicide, carjacking, possession of an unidentifiable firearm, armed theft with a firearm and possession of a machine gun.