Dear Editor, How did we ever survive the ‘good old days’?
January 16, 2007
AliceMae Bergeron
January 18, 2007THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man awaiting trial on a drug possession charge in a Houma courtroom Tuesday was arrested and booked with two murders.
Kevin Jerrell Smith, 30, is accused of gunning down two men inside a Gibson trailer March 16.
He was in District Judge Timothy Ellender’s courtroom for what was to be the start of his trial on a charge of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. That’s where detectives arrested him for the murders of Yuri Xavier Johnson Jr. of California and Noble Kelly of Texas.
Smith’s drug-possession trial was delayed because of the arrest.
Smith was jailed the day of the shooting after investigators found five pounds of marijuana inside the trailer.
Police had long suspected Smith, who was inside the trailer during the shootings, but were waiting on the results of crime-lab tests of evidence found at the scene before filing the two murder charges.
Johnson, Kelly and Smith arrived in Gibson late the night prior to the shooting and were staying at the trailer, police said at the time. LeBlanc was not inside during the shooting.
