Widner “Flow” Degruy was convicted Monday (April 8) in a 2015 New Orleans East double shooting that killed brothers Kendred and Kendrick Bishop.
A jury deliberated about 1 1/2 hours Monday before Degruy, 27, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder.
Assistant District Attorneys Alex Calenda and Irena Zajickova said Degruy killed the brothers in retaliation for his belief they stole $8,000 and two guns from his girlfriend’s car a week earlier.
Jonathan “Lil Joe” Evans, Degruy’s co-defendant, told jurors that story from the witness stand last week. Degruy took the witness stand Friday and said that wasn’t true.
He claimed it was Evans who had a problem with Kendred Bishop, though he didn’t understand why. He said Evans told him Kendred Bishop was one of his “ops,” slang for enemy, when they ran into Bishop after a Dipset concert at the Howlin’ Wolf.
“I wouldn’t have no reason to want to kill them,” Degruy said. “I wouldn’t murder nobody … I wouldn’t arrange for nobody to be murdered.”
The Bishop brothers – 18-year-old Kendred, who went by the name Kirby, and 22-year-old Kendrick, a rap artist signed to Degruy’s record label who performed as MuddyCupBuddy – were gunned down inside a black Kia sedan in the 4800 block of Bright Drive around 5:45 a.m.
Degruy and defense attorney Gary Wainwright said Evans was an unreliable witness who carried out the murders with his cousin, Damien “Lil D” Crockem, a then 15-year-old who used to carry Evans’ 9mm pistol around and shoot for him.
Degruy said he saw Crockem near the Bishops’ car when he and Evans got out minutes before the shooting.
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