Two men whom St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies say were involved in a shooting in LaPlace are now in custody. One of those suspects, authorities say, was arrested on a Greyhound Bus trying to flee Louisiana.
That shooting happened around 2 p.m. Thursday on Cartier Drive near Heather Lane, a few blocks away from Airline Highway.
According to St. John Parish deputies, Jonathan Williams shot a man during that incident. First responders brought the victim to an area hospital, where he later died.
St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies tracked down Williams to a Greyhound bus headed for Atlanta, Georgia. Deputies pulled over that bus around 10 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 10 near the Fremeaux Avenue exit. Those deputies found Williams on the bus and arrested him without incident. A St. Tammany sheriff's spokesperson says those deputies found a rifle, several rounds of ammunition, and a ski mask in Williams's possession when they searched his belongings. That gun, investigators say, was stolen from Ascension Parish.
Williams is in the St. Tammany Parish Jail on a fugitive warrant and one count of possession of a stolen firearm. Deputies have not said when he will be transported back to St. John the Baptist Parish to face a second-degree murder charge there.
St. John deputies arrested the second suspect in the case, Dederick Zeno, at his Laplace home hours after the shooting. Zeno is facing one count of principal to second-degree murder. Authorities did not say how he was tied to the shooting or what assistance he allegedly provided Williams.