Man accused of killing 2 people within 14 months of release from prison for manslaughter: DA
By Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A 27-year-old man is accused of killing two people in New Orleans within 14-months of his release from a Louisiana prison, where he had served time in connection to the death of a third person, Orleans Parish prosecutors said.
An Orleans Parish grand jury on Thursday (Feb. 21) handed up the murder indictment against Darnell Braud based on allegations he killed 22-year-old Peter Oatis Jr. on Nov. 2, 2017, about seven months after Braud’s April 2017 release on parole, according to a news release from Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office. Braud had not previously been publicly accused in that case.
Braud had already been jailed since July, though, following his arrest and subsequent indictment in connection to the shooting death of 29-year-old Jarivas Jarrow, who was shot dead about six months after Oatis was killed.
Oatis was on parole at the time of the shooting deaths of both Oatis and Jarrow. The parole and his prison sentence stemmed from a 2008 manslaughter conviction in connection to Sept. 30, 2007, fatal shooting of 18-year-old Warren Martin. Braud was 16 years old when Martin was killed. Braud was initially charged with second-degree murder in Martin’s death before he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Braud faces a charge of first-degree murder in Oatis’ death. Oatis was found fatally shot in the near the Seabrook Bridge, officially named the Senator Ted Hickey Bridge, in New Orleans East. Oatis’ aunt had reported him missing two days after his body was found, New Orleans police have said. The DA’s office said DNA helped connect Braud to Oatis’ homicide. First-degree murder applies when someone commits a second-degree murder along with another felony. The DA’s office listed obstruction of justice as the additional felony.
Braud faces a first-degree murder charge in Jarrow’s death, as well. Jarrow was shot dead May 24, 2018, outside his home in the Leonidas neighborhood. He was killed in front of his 1- and 2-year-old sons, just before taking the older child to school, his girlfriend Trichelle Harris told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. A warrant for Braud’s arrest in the case states Jarrow was shot by a masked man, but witnesses saw a car Braud was known to drive flee the scene with the gunman. Another witness later told investigators Braud told him he killed Jarrow. According to the warrant, Braud told the witness he and Jarrow had gotten into an argument at a nearby corner store the morning of the shooting.
The DA’s office is not pursuing the death penalty in either of the first-degree murder cases pending against Braud.
Braud, who the DA’s office noted, “stands accused of murder for the third time in his life,” is currently scheduled to stand trial on April 2 in the murder of Jarrow, in a case overseen by Orleans Criminal District Judge Franz Zibilich.
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By Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A 27-year-old man is accused of killing two people in New Orleans within 14-months of his release from a Louisiana prison, where he had served time in connection to the death of a third person, Orleans Parish prosecutors said.
An Orleans Parish grand jury on Thursday (Feb. 21) handed up the murder indictment against Darnell Braud based on allegations he killed 22-year-old Peter Oatis Jr. on Nov. 2, 2017, about seven months after Braud’s April 2017 release on parole, according to a news release from Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office. Braud had not previously been publicly accused in that case.
Braud had already been jailed since July, though, following his arrest and subsequent indictment in connection to the shooting death of 29-year-old Jarivas Jarrow, who was shot dead about six months after Oatis was killed.
Oatis was on parole at the time of the shooting deaths of both Oatis and Jarrow. The parole and his prison sentence stemmed from a 2008 manslaughter conviction in connection to Sept. 30, 2007, fatal shooting of 18-year-old Warren Martin. Braud was 16 years old when Martin was killed. Braud was initially charged with second-degree murder in Martin’s death before he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Braud faces a charge of first-degree murder in Oatis’ death. Oatis was found fatally shot in the near the Seabrook Bridge, officially named the Senator Ted Hickey Bridge, in New Orleans East. Oatis’ aunt had reported him missing two days after his body was found, New Orleans police have said. The DA’s office said DNA helped connect Braud to Oatis’ homicide. First-degree murder applies when someone commits a second-degree murder along with another felony. The DA’s office listed obstruction of justice as the additional felony.
Braud faces a first-degree murder charge in Jarrow’s death, as well. Jarrow was shot dead May 24, 2018, outside his home in the Leonidas neighborhood. He was killed in front of his 1- and 2-year-old sons, just before taking the older child to school, his girlfriend Trichelle Harris told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. A warrant for Braud’s arrest in the case states Jarrow was shot by a masked man, but witnesses saw a car Braud was known to drive flee the scene with the gunman. Another witness later told investigators Braud told him he killed Jarrow. According to the warrant, Braud told the witness he and Jarrow had gotten into an argument at a nearby corner store the morning of the shooting.
The DA’s office is not pursuing the death penalty in either of the first-degree murder cases pending against Braud.
Braud, who the DA’s office noted, “stands accused of murder for the third time in his life,” is currently scheduled to stand trial on April 2 in the murder of Jarrow, in a case overseen by Orleans Criminal District Judge Franz Zibilich.
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