Juvenile Booked In Eunice Drive-By Shooting Case
A sixteen-year-old male has been arrested on a charge of Attempted-First-Degree murder in connection with a drive-by shooting in January that led to another young person being injured. The drive-by shooting happened January 3 at the intersection of Lewis Street and East Maple Avenue.
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot, via press release, is expressing his frustration with the status of juvenile justice in the state of Louisiana.
He says between juvenile justice reform and Covid, the 16-year-old arrested in connection with this drive-by shooting, has many other arrests on his record. He points to this young male's juvenile life sentence in 2019 for his part in two burglaries were guns and ammunition was taken. He says the teen should have been in the juvenile justice system until the age of twenty-one, but because of the reforms, and Covid, he was released early.