A man shot dead in Algiers Thursday afternoon (April 25), after what arrest records described as a heated argument, has been identified by authorities as 30-year-old Jeremy Straughter.
Orleans Parish Coroner Dwight McKenna’s office on Tuesday said Straughter died of gunshot wounds. Police responding to the shooting found a man, now identified as Straughter, on the ground outside a Shell gas station in the 2600 block of General DeGaulle Drive.
‘Heated’ argument preceded Thursday’s fatal shooting in Algiers: arrest documents
Witnesses told police they heard gunfire outside a nearby church, then saw the man who had been shot run to the gas station, according to an affidavit for the arrest of the man accused of killing Straughter. Gas station employees told NOPD detectives the man collapsed outside the convenience store’s door.
A witness said he or she took cover inside the church when an argument between Straughter and a man police identified as 34-year-old Darnell Celestin grew “very heated.” People heard gunshots outside the church, near where the men were located, the affidavit states, and officers found spent shell casings near the church.
Celestin was arrested Thursday (April 25) and booked on a charge of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting. The affidavit states the dead man had gunshot wounds to his back, near his right shoulder blade. Orleans Parish Magistrate Commissioner Harry Cantrell set Celestin’s bond at $450,000.
Detectives obtained video from the gas station captured before the fatal shooting, the affidavit states, and it showed Celestin at the gas station prior to the shooting.
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