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are there any updates about this guy?
are there any updates about this guy?
CLINTON — Police and the state Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating a Saturday night fire that destroyed a house where a man was shot to death less than 24 hours earlier, Police Chief Eddie Stewart said.
The fire at 10136 Kennedy St. gutted the interior and burned large holes in sides of a shotgun-style home where an occupant, 21-year-old Jarrel Matthews, was fatally shot shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, Stewart said.
The fire, one of three in a one-block area during a 48-hour period, was first reported to the East Feliciana Parish 911 dispatchers at 6:07 p.m. Saturday, according to a Sheriff’s Office radio log report.
“We definitely suspect arson. I checked that house carefully when we left, making sure the stove was off,” the police chief said.
Police booked Anthony Manzella, 19, 52423 Piazza Road, Hammond, with first-degree murder in Matthews’ death — initially identified by police by the last name Matthew. Also booked in the incident were Johnny Barnes, 27, 3302 Quiet Lane, Jackson, and Andrew Robertson, 23, 14568 Kohnke Hill Road, Hammond, both with principal to first-degree murder.
Stewart said the two Hammond men came to Clinton to buy drugs from Matthews and Barnes, but Matthews allegedly struck Manzella in the back of the head with a rifle shortly after the visitors entered the house.
Manzella told investigators he was armed with a gun and shot Matthews in the lower abdomen, Stewart said.
After the shooting, the three men ran out in the street and Barnes approached a Clinton police officer who was driving by at that moment, Stewart said. After learning that a man had been shot, the officer took the three into custody.
In addition to guns, police recovered an assortment of pills, a small amount of marijuana and a white powdery material, Stewart said. “Maybe somebody thought we missed something and set it on fire, but we think we got what we needed,” the police chief said.
Barnes told police the powder is ground-up Tylenol, but Stewart said it will be submitted to the State Police Crime Lab for testing.
The first fire in the neighborhood was reported at 1:45 a.m. Friday and firefighters had to be called out two more times when flames broke out in the vacant brick veneer home.
Clinton Fire Chief Doug Beauchamp said arson is suspected in the fires, but firefighters have no evidence to support their suspicions.
While police were investigating the shooting, a fire was reported in a Johnson Street trailer where Matthews’ mother once lived, Stewart said.
Police recovered a flammable liquid that may have been used to start a fire in the interior of the trailer, Stewart said.
I'm glad you guys have this thread. I was just about to make a thread asking some questions about this.
I was wanting to find out if this would be OK on my part.
My little brother went to a party at someones house one night where the dad allowed the high school kids to drink and smoke [highlight= #ffff88]weed[/highlight].
Now the cops normally come to the parties and really don't say much about the kids drinking and they don't ever catch the ones smoking [highlight= #ffff88]weed[/highlight].
Now here is where is gets bad in my opinion.
While the party is going on, the dad decides to come out side with his gun and starts firing in the air for the hell of it.
He told the kids it was blanks but we all know it was not blanks.
Now this same kid is having a party tonight! I will be going to it this time to see what all goes on at this party.
If the dad decides to come outside and start firing his weapon like a mad man, would a citizens arrest be 100% legal and would I be in any type of trouble if I pull my weapon to detain the situation?
In my eyes, he was putting everyone's lives in danger.
Would I be OK if I were to do this if it occurs tonight?
this is what he was doing about a week before the shooting.Well I just got back from this party.
Right before I went to the party I sat at the Tangipahoa Sherrif's sub station with my buddy who is the Sergent and told him I was about to go to this party and he said that he already had some complaints about what happened last time and that he was going to be breaking it up soon.
Well I get to the party and as I'm talking to some people that I know, I am choked from behind and feel someone going for my gun. I try to get [highlight= #88ffff]control[/highlight] of the gun but instead I get my gun pointed at me.
Its the crazy dad pointing my gun at me and screaming what the f%%% you doing with a gun I'm on parole and house arrest and I told him I'm with Mr.(Sergent) from the Tangi Sherrif (as my buddy told me to say if there was any trouble and after I call he would come take care of it)
Well the dad tells me he doesn't give a F*** who I'm with and pulls a gun from his waste and puts it to my head and says he will blow my brains out. I stayed calm and just told him to put his gun down and return my firearm. After some people go to him and calm him down, he gives me my firearm back and says get the f*** out of here.
So as it would have no longer been a "good kill" as I was no longer threated with a gun to my head, I walked away and called the Sgt.
Once all of the cops pulled in, he tried to appoligize of course and then once he found out that everyone was a witness to what happened including his son, he threatened to press charges on me for tresspassing with a weapon on his property.
So I couldn't press charges on him even though he put his gun to my head while holding my gun in my cheast because he would press charges on me.
So after talking to my buddy, he suggested I let it go or he would be pressing charges on me as well.
What would you guys have done in this situation? I knew it was no longer a "good kill" (no kill is a good kill) and I knew that even if I did have [highlight= #88ffff]control[/highlight] of my weapon when he put his to my head and I would have shot him, his [highlight= #ffff88]weed[/highlight] head buddies would have shot me.
It was a tough situation but I did use my head and stayed calm about everything, but what would you guys have done?
I know this should most likely be a thread of its own, but I'm posting here as I was just talking about this party in this thread eariler today.
"Rightly so" perhaps not. The fact he couldn't go to 7-11 and purchase cannabis from a legal and regulated source is what precipitated this unfortunate string of events. Had that been the case, there would have never been a setup for a robbery, and the person would have never felt the need to defend themselves against a person wielding an AK. It's tragic because the person merely wanted to buy an intoxicant (cannabis), no different than one wanting to buy a six pack of beer, and had to do it from a source that then threatened to murder them. Why shouldn't he be able to protect himself in that case?What an idiot! He's screwed and rightly so.
Disagreeing with a law does not justify breaking it. He chose to break the law to get pot. Claiming pot should be legal does not alter the facts.ODA 226 wrote:"Rightly so" perhaps not. The fact he couldn't go to 7-11 and purchase cannabis from a legal and regulated source is what precipitated this unfortunate string of events. Had that been the case, there would have never been a setup for a robbery, and the person would have never felt the need to defend themselves against a person wielding an AK. It's tragic because the person merely wanted to buy an intoxicant (cannabis), no different than one wanting to buy a six pack of beer, and had to do it from a source that then threatened to murder them. Why shouldn't he be able to protect himself in that case?What an idiot! He's screwed and rightly so.
@#$%ty situation all around. The fact cannabis is illegal. The fact someone tried to rob and murder another. The fact the attempted robber is now dead. The fact the robber's killer is being charged with murder in the first.
I'm an ex-Peace Officer and I think that grass should be legalized. Suprised?
You have no argument. The law is the the law and he broke it. If you disagree with the law, change it.
I'm an ex-Peace Officer and I think that grass should be legalized. Suprised?
You have no argument. The law is the the law and he broke it. If you disagree with the law, change it.
SNIPIf you disagree with the law, change it.
What is "immoral" about the law in this case?ODA 226 wrote:I'm an ex-Peace Officer and I think that grass should be legalized. Suprised?
You have no argument. The law is the the law and he broke it. If you disagree with the law, change it.
Thoreau. Gandhi. Parks. Schindler. The Apostle Paul. Mandela.
A great many people would disagree with you, and point out that obeying an immoral law is, in itself, immoral.
... Do tell. Which law is "immoral"?KBCraig wrote:What is "immoral" about the law in this case?ODA 226 wrote:I'm an ex-Peace Officer and I think that grass should be legalized. Suprised?
You have no argument. The law is the the law and he broke it. If you disagree with the law, change it.
Thoreau. Gandhi. Parks. Schindler. The Apostle Paul. Mandela.
A great many people would disagree with you, and point out that obeying an immoral law is, in itself, immoral.