Two men wanted in connection with separate New Orleans homicides are now in custody after city police and federal marshals arrested them on Friday.
According to an New Orleans Police Department spokesperson, NOPD officers and agents from the U. S. Marshals Service arrested Raymond Coats and Carl Wilson on Friday. Both were wanted on second-degree murder warrants and have been booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Coats, 20, is accused of shooting Calvin Brown, 41, outside a gas station on Franklin Avenue near Interstate 610 on October 18. Brown suffered multiple wounds and later died at a hospital. Police used surveillance video from the gas station to help them identify Coats as the suspect. On Friday, NOPD officers and federal marshals found him at a home on Stonewood Drive in New Orleans East and arrested him there.
Wilson, 38, is accused of shooting Cassie Picquet, 39, at a home on Castle Court just off Chef Menteur Highway in the late-night hours of November 7. When officers arrived, they found Picquet dead at the scene. Officers and marshals found Wilson on Coliseum Street in Touro and arrested him in connection with Picquet's death.
Both cases remains under investigation.
