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As jury is almost seated, black man decides to plead guilty in execution style slaying of white friend at fishing camp
   PLAQUEMINE — A 22-year-old man accused of robbing and fatally shooting his friend unexpectedly flipped the noscript during trial proceedings Wednesday, deciding to plead guilty to the crime just moments before lawyers were about to seat the final members of the jury. Moments later, a state district court judge sentenced Detrell Scott to life in prison for the slaying. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, as charged. Assistant District Attorney Tony Clayton said Scott wasn’t trying to do the family of victim Kye Boudreaux any favors by forgoing his right to a trial. He said Scott wanted to avoid a trial because of the evidence prosecutors had mounting against him. “He didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell.” “He confessed. We have him on tape leaving the crime scene. We got his DNA, the weapon — everything.”
Boudreaux’s parents found their son’s body at the family’s camp near Grand River in May 2014 after their son’s boat was spotted about 5:30 a.m. drifting in the waters of the Intracoastal Waterway. Boudreaux, 26, had been shot in the head with his own gun. In addition to Boudreaux’s gun, Scott stole the victim’s wallet, car keys, cellphone and some drugs Boudreaux was carrying. Boudreaux had allowed Scott to tag along on a fishing trip that day.
Iberville Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested a second man, Darrell Georgetown, in the murder. Georgetown was booked on counts of accessory after the fact and obstruction of justice for helping Scott flee the scene after Scott burned Boudreaux’s truck and trailer in a cane field off La. 1 behind the Relax Inn motel. Clayton said Georgetown was set to testify against Scott had the matter gone to trial. The victim’s father, Darrel Boudreaux, was visibly shaken moments after Scott entered a guilty plea. “I didn’t want to relive this again.”
However, the victim’s mother, Jane Boudreaux, expressed some disappointment. She told reporters that she wanted Scott’s trial to play out in hopes it would end a racial war that had sprouted up on social media since her son’s murder. Jane Boudreaux said black people had commented online that white folks would use the case to send another black man to jail. Scott is a black man and Boudreaux was white. “It’s not about black and white. It’s about wrong and right,” she said. “There was definitely a racial war on social media, and it needs to stop. I wanted people to see it wasn’t anyone ratting on him like he believed. It wasn’t white people. He did it to himself.”
In an impact statement she read in court Wednesday, Jane Boudreaux characterized Scott as a devil after seeing text messages where the man bragged to friends about murdering her son.
She said one of those text messages read: “Man, bra, I knocked my white boy off last night.” - (Black-on-white) |
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Michael Young ran, but decided he couldn't hide forever. And now, the Brooklyn man could spend the rest of his life locked inside a prison cell after a Staten Island jury convicted him of slaying a Tompkinsville woman in her home nearly a decade ago. After deliberating nearly four days, jurors convicted Young of second-degree murder in the death of Zofia Rogowicka. Prosecutors said Young, 40, strangled Ms. Rogowicka on Dec. 5, 2005, in the bedroom of her home. He then dumped her body in a shipping barrel in an alleyway behind the Kent movie theater in Brooklyn not far from his home. The 54-year-old victim's naked and partially frozen corpse was found on Dec. 14, 2005. Young, who left the country just over a week after that grim discovery, was arrested in June of last year in the Central American country of Belize, said prosecutors.Young had walked into the U.S. Embassy and said he was tired of running and wanted to return home, said prosecutors. - (Black-on-white)
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