Three men accused of fatally shooting two women in a botched murder-for-hire plot in Montegut have been indicted on murder charges.
A Terrebonne Parish grand jury found enough evidence Wednesday to charge Beaux Cormier, 35, of Kaplan, 25-year-old Carencro resident Andrew Eskin and Dalvin Wilson, 22, of Eunice, with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.
An indictment does not presume guilt or innocence but indicates the grand jury found prosecutors presented enough evidence to warrant a trial on the charges.
The three men appeared in court Thursday by video conference from the Terrebonne Parish jail and each pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Montegut shooting victims remembered as loving and strong
There is a reason why most of the appliances, ingredients and utensils are on the left side of the kitchen at Larussa’s Lounge in Houma.
Because the bar’s cook, Brittany Cormier, was left-handed, the kitchen was designed to provide her with easy access, owner Candia Ledet said.
“Brittany was left-handed, so when you go into the kitchen you notice all of the stuff is packed on the left side,” Ledet said. “She was going to decorate it. She had already started hanging her stuff. That was her kitchen. In fact, my husband was getting the kitchen set up to Brittany’s standards.”
A suspected rapist hired two men to kill his victim to prevent her from testifying against him in court. However, the two hired hitmen ended up killing his sist
Police in Louisiana say Brittany Cormier told a hitman that she was the rape victim he was hired to kill in order to save the life of her daughter, the gunman's intended target. Investigators said her brother, a convicted sex offender, had raped his niece, then hired hitmen to murder her so she couldn't testify.
Kaplan man charged in murder-for-hire case has history of violent crimes
Terrebonne Parish Sheriff s Office
Beaux Cormier, Andrew Eskine, Dalvin Wilson
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LAFAYETTE, La. â The Kaplan man charged in connection with a murder-for-hire plot to silence his the rape victim so she could not testify against him has a history of sexual and violent crimes.
Cormier has also been charged with solicitation for murder.
According to court records obtained by our media partners at The Advocate, Cormier has a history of violent crimes and faced next to no jail time for some of the charges, which include forcible rape, third-degree rape, intimidating a witness, cyberstalking, armed robbery and animal cruelty, the newspaper reports.