Kenner police testify to potential racial component in killing of handyman Lawrence Herr
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Via: vic-eldred • 4 weeks ago • 18 commentsBy: Rob Masson ( httpswww. foxlive. com)
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JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — The two men arrested for the fatal shooting of Lawrence Herr in Kenner may have been motivated because he was white, a detective working the homicide said during a court hearing Tuesday.
On April 11, Kenner Police arrested 23-year-old Tahj Matthews and 25-year-old Maurice Holmes for the April 10 murder of Lawrence Herr.
Herr, 66, was shot and killed while installing a mailbox outside a home on Georgetown Drive in Kenner.
At the time of the killing, Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said that one of the suspects confessed to the shooting but didn't have a particular motive.
"One of the suspects did say they were on a random shooting binge and wanted to commit a murder, we think there may be ulterior motives and that's what the detectives are investigating," Chief Conley said.
Matthews and Holmes were in court Tuesday for a bond reduction hearing.
At Tuesday’s hearing, the lead detective on the case was asked why the pair targeted Herr. The detective said that under questioning, Matthews said they "wanted to kill a white person."
The detective also said that while there were no projectile or bullet casings found on the scene, Matthews confessed to stashing the gun in an attic at his home, and police recovered a gun at that location. He also obtained a search warrant for Holmes' place of residence but nothing was found at that location.
Tests for DNA evidence on the gun retrieved from Matthews' home have not come back.
Meanwhile, defense attorneys questioned the clarity of the surveillance video and the credibility of the witnesses the detective cited in his statements. They also question the timeline and the level of planning that goes into a first-degree murder charge.
A first-degree murder charge does not allow suspects to have a bond. The defense attorney was seeking to have a bond set.
In testimony, the detective revealed that Herr was shot one time. An autopsy revealed the bullet went through his back and out through his chest.
As of now the first-degree murder charge for Holmes and Matthews still stands, the defense attorneys say they're going to take some time to go through the facts of the case and hopefully have another bond hearing.
According to police, detectives identified the vehicle used in the April 10 shooting within three hours of Herr's murder and made the two arrests shortly after.
"This was a textbook crime apprehension," Conley said. "I am proud of the work of our detectives and police who pieced together the evidence and followed its trail to take dangerous criminals off our streets."
According to Conley, license plate reader cameras tracked the suspects' car driving by Herr multiple times before the shooting,
"Let this serve as a message to anyone who considers terrorizing this city or its people that the Kenner PD will be relentless until we bring a criminal to justice," Conley said. "This was a heinous drive-by assassination of a kind, caring man who was helping other. We were determined to end the rage of these criminals before they could target anyone else."
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Question of the day:
Does anyone know why this cannot be classified as a hate crime?
To be filed on page 10.
The right has enough hate for everyone.
Wrong.
Try again.
What the hell does that have to do with it? Nice deflect. A couple around here would disown you for that........well not really. I am sure it is loved by all /S
More right wing terror!
Trolling all day today?
Did you read the article? It states that it "MAY" have been racially motivated. Hence no hate crime, yet.
How about you?
At Tuesday’s hearing, the lead detective on the case was asked why the pair targeted Herr. The detective said that under questioning, Matthews said they "wanted to kill a white person."
You aren't sure of what that means?
Nice try.................NOT
others have demonstrated that they not only read the article, but more importantly, they understood it.
It means that hearsay does not count as evidence without further corroborating evidence.
You should look up the hearsay rule. A defendant’s admission absolutely “counts” as evidence and there is no need for corroboration
They obviously think that African Americans are incapable of speaking for themselves; and are not believable.
You are assuming that he said it during questioning after he'd been advised of his rights. How do you come up with that assumption based on a single sentence?
It would be easier to Just admit I was correct than trying to move the goalposts. Since you understand That Miranda warnings exist you must know your original point was silly, because why would anyone have to be advised of their right to remain silent if their confessions are inadmissible as hearsay?
There’s no rational reason to believe he wasn’t properly arrested. What’s now going on is you are, for reasons known only to you, grasping at straws to make some bullshit deflection doesn’t support your original claim whatsoever.
another murder the left doesn’t care about, unless they can figure out a way to push the square black men into to the round hole of white supremacy.
That's what they have Joe the jerk for.
Or maybe Jussie Smollett will tell us that he was there & they were wearing red hats.
Does anyone know?
Here is a clue:
When Eric Holder was AG he gave us the answer