A week after arresting a teenage murder suspect, investigators have arrested two more people and are searching for another in an Upper 9th Ward shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl.
Police this week arrested Joshua Augillard, 20, on suspicion of second-degree murder and his girlfriend, 18-year-old Terrica Moss, on a charge of accessory to murder, Orleans Parish court records show.
The NOPD is looking for Reginald Blanton, 18, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder in the March 29 shooting death of high-school student Tyneisha Muse.
The accusations against Augillard, Moss and Blanton follow last week’s arrest of 19-year-old Corey L. Harris, who confessed to the killing and identified Augillard and Blanton as his accomplices, according to an affidavit for Augillard’s arrest warrant.
NOPD arrests man in Upper 9th Ward shooting that killed 17-year-old Tyneisha Muse
The killing occurred about 7 p.m. March 29, as Muse and an 18-year-old man, said to be her boyfriend, were in the 3500 block of North Prieur Street. Responding officers found Muse fatally shot in the back and lying prone at the scene, roughly a block from Bunny Friend Park.
The teen girl was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Muse does not appear to be the intended target of the shooting; instead, Harris told police that he, Augillard and Blanton had “sought out” the 18-year-old man who was with Muse at the time of the shooting.
The 18-year-old, who was struck in the shooting, had made death threats against Harris on social media, according to Harris’ statement to police. The 18-year-old suffered two gunshot wounds—one of them a graze wound—to his upper body, the arrest documents show.
A third person at the scene was not injured but was sitting in a vehicle that got struck by gunfire, police said, leading to additional charges for Harris and Augillard, the suspected gunmen.
Harris and Augillard are each accused of two counts of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated criminal damage to property.
NOPD arrests man in Upper 9th Ward shooting that killed 17-year-old Tyneisha Muse
Augillard’s arrest documents did not indicate how police developed Harris as a suspect but said that Harris was found with guns linked via ballistic testing to casings found at the murder scene. Following his May 15 arrest, Harris named Augillard and Blanton as his accomplices. According to arrest documents for Augillard, sworn by NOPD Homicide Detective Eric Illarmo, Harris told police that Augillard also fired a gun during the deadly shooting.
A warrant for Augillard’s arrest was obtained May 15—and he was captured several days later, after police found him in a New Orleans East home with his girlfriend, Moss.
Moss is accused of acting as an accessory to murder after police say she told a homicide detective on Sunday that she did not know Augillard’s location. On Monday, when police officers checked the home on Avalon Way, Moss answered the door and “denied that Augillard was present.”
Officers then spotted Augillard leaving through the home’s back entrance and took him into custody, according to his arrest documents.
Moss told police that she knew Augillard was wanted on a murder charge but that she did not know he was in the home when officers arrived at the door.
Both Augillard and Moss were arrested Monday and booked into the Orleans Justice Center jail.
Augillard was additionally booked with simple burglary in a separate crime, as well as warrants out of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes, court records show.
He remained in jail Thursday with his bond set at $815,000. Harris also remained in jail, his bond set at $660,000.
Moss, whose bond was set at $2,000, was not in jail as of Thursday afternoon, according to jail records. A booking photo of Moss was not immediately available.
Blanton remained at large. He has open charges of illegal possession of stolen things and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in connection with an April crime, according to Orleans Parish court records. A judge issued a warrant for his arrest May 15, after he failed to appear for a hearing on those charges.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Reginald Blanton is asked to call NOPD Homicide Detective Eric Illarmo at 504-658-5300 or submit an anonymous tip to Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.
Laura McKnight covers crime and breaking news for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
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