2 more arrests in 2010 Kenner killing investigation prompted by call from Unsolved Mysteries
Kenner Police said that all three of the suspects were identified in 2010, but investigations failed to end with arrests. Author: WWL Staff Updated: 11:59 AM CDT May 7, 2021
Kenner Police have made two more arrests in an 11-year-old murder case that was resurrected after an inquiry by the TV show
Unsolved Mysteries last month.
Lee Williams, 35, of New Orleans; and Zetonio Lightfoot, 31, of Kenner were charged with two counts each of first-degree murder in the 2010 killing of Hermania Ellsworth and Charles Davis in Kenner.
Lee, who would have been 24 when the killings took place, was arrested on April 30 at an address in New Orleans by the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force.
Kenner Police make two more arrests in connection with 2010 double murder
Kenner Cold Case arrests By Tiffany Baptiste | May 7, 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT - Updated May 7 at 5:21 PM
KENNER (WVUE) - The Kenner Police Department has made two more arrests in connection with a double murder in 2010.
Police arrested Lee Williams, 35, of New Orleans and Zetonio Lightfoot, 31, of Kenner. Both have been charged with two counts of first degree murder in connection with the shooting deaths of Hermania Ellsworth and Charles Davis.
On June 17, 2010, Kenner Police responded to a call of a shooting in the 700 block of Farrar Street. When they arrived at the scene, they found Ellsworth and Davis shot multiple times inside of their crashed vehicle. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Show Transcript THE SHOW UNSOLVED MYSTERIES HAS NOW LED POLICE TO SOLVING 11 YEAR OLD UNSOLVED MURDER IN THE CITY OF KENNER. YEAH, THE DETAILS KIND OF CRAZY DARNELL WOULD NELSON OF LAPLACE WAS BOOKED ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND THE DEATHS OF ROMANIA ELLSWORTH AND CHARLES DAVIS. SO IT WAS BACK IN JULY OF 2010 WHEN THE TWO WERE FOUND DEAD IN A CRASHED CAR WITH THREE YEAR OLD IN THE BACK SEAT INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE CASE WAS CONNECTED TO ANOTHER DOUBLE MURDER ON THE NORTH SHORE THE BODIES OF HERBERT GLASS AND LYNETTE WILLIAMS WERE FOUND FLOATING IN LAKE PONTCHARTRAINE EARLIER THAT MONTH. FLASH FORWARD TO MARCH OF THIS YEAR KENNER POLICE REOPEN THE CASE AFTER UNSOLVED MYSTERIES CALLED ASKING QUESTIONS INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY CONNECTED THIS MAN NELSON TO THE KENN
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An inquiry to Louisiana authorities by the Netflix series Unsolved Mysteries jump-started two dormant murder investigations into the slayings of a pair of married couples and led to an arrest last week.
The Kenner Police Department said Dernell Nelson, 35, of LaPlace, is charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of Hermania Ellsworth and Charles Davis. Investigators said he may also be connected to the slaying of another married couple found dead three weeks after the death of the first couple.
The first killings occurred on June 17, 2010, when authorities found Ellsworth and Davis dead from multiple gunshot wounds inside her vehicle, which had crashed into a tree. Their 3-year-old son was in the backseat but had not been shot. He sustained other injuries, police said.
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