| "Edna Karr senior Caleb Johnson was weeks away from graduating when he was gunned down in an Algiers apartment complex last year along with his step-sister Breyiana Brown. Hollis Carter, the 21-year-old man who police say confessed to the double-murder, was just minutes away from a court hearing Wednesday morning when he was fatally shot and his mother seriously wounded. Now, in what appears to be the next turn in a tragic cycle of violence and retaliation, Caleb Johnson's father, 46-year-old Bokio Johnson, was booked Friday with Carter's killing. The shooting on Chef Menteur Highway was caught on a video that shows an SUV car pulling up beside a sedan and a gunman opening fire on a sedan being driven by Carter and his mother. He died of a gunshot wound to the head. Carter, arrested in April 2021, was behind bars for five months before he was released after making a $375,000, a bond that cost him or his family about $40,000. Court records show that he had been making his required court appearances. Carterââ¬â¢s attorney John Fuller maintained his clientââ¬â¢s innocence. He said Friday he had been preparing for trial in the case and try to prove that Carterââ¬â¢s gave a false confession out of fear of the actual gunman." - 11Alive Posted by Thrillz |
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