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NEW ORLEANS – Authorities in Louisiana say separate but linked shots in two different parishes have killed five people. A suspect was on the run and wanted
Sheriff Bobby Webre of the Ascension Parish told a press conference that deputies had been summoned in a caravan of the city of Gonzales for a "domestic incident" Saturday morning. Upon their arrival, MPs found two people who had been shot dead but still alive: Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 51 years old.
According to Webre, members of Parliament were able to question one of the victims before transporting them to a Baton Rouge hospital, where they died later.
From this interview, the authorities identified the 21-year-old son of the couple, Dakota, as "our main suspect in this case". He is wanted for first degree murder and for other counts of indictment.
Webre stated that Dakota had briefly lived with her parents, but had been asked to leave the residence and not return. He is considered armed and dangerous and was driving a stolen pickup truck Dodge Ram 2004. Gray and silver gray
The sheriff said three more gun deaths occurred on Saturday in the neighboring parishes of Livingston, about 113 km away. west of New Orleans.
Sheriff Jason Ard of Livingston Parish confirmed on Facebook that three deaths occurred in his parish and identified the victims as Billy Ernest, 43; Tanner Ernest, 17 years old; and Summer Ernest, 20, Webre said that they were not relatives of the suspect but that they seemed to know him.
The spokeswoman of the Sheriff of Ascension, Allison Hudson, said the authorities felt that shooting in both parishes was linked and that investigators from both jurisdictions were working together.
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