Robbers shoot 2, kill 1

Police: Shootings unconnected

One man was shot and killed late Monday while another man was shot and wounded early Tuesday in similar but separate robberies, a police spokesman said.

In both incidents two men approached their victims, robbed or tried to rob them, then shot them, police spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely said.

Police arrested two Port Allen men in the nonfatal shooting and are looking for two black teens in the fatal shooting, McKneely said. Police do not believe the shootings are connected, he said.

The fatal shooting happened just after 10:30 p.m. Monday outside the Pueblo Apartments at 3225 Wyoming St., near LSU, McKneely said.

Travis Holland, 24, was shot during an attempted robbery just before 10:30 p.m. after he stepped outside his apartment to smoke a cigarette, McKneely said.

Holland stumbled inside his home and fell to the floor after he was shot, McKneely said. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he later died.

A similar incident occurred almost five hours later in the parking lot of the Chevron service station at 501 St. Ferdinand St. near downtown, McKneely said.

Two men — later identified as Phillip Carter, 21, and Robert Pierson, 17, both of Port Allen — approached a 43-year-old tractor trailer driver as he was unloading fuel into the gas station’s underground tanks, McKneely said.

The men robbed the driver of his wallet and then shot him twice in the leg before fleeing on foot, McKneely said. Police found the shooting victim just after 3 a.m. lying on the ground next to his tractor trailer, McKneely said. The man was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police used K-9 police dogs to help them locate Carter and Pierson, who were found in the Beauregard neighborhood nearby, McKneely said.

Carter, 250 N. 14th St., Port Allen, and Pierson, 5109 Rebelle Lane, Port Allen, were booked into Parish Prison on one count each of attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and resisting arrest.

Anyone with information about the robbery and fatal shooting is asked to call police at [phone] or Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-STOP.

Comments

1) Comment by Springer98 - 08/08/2012

That is what is so sad when a decent human being is killed by these worthless pieces of trash! Bad thing is that it is only going to get worse. Until the kids in the black community have dads to discipline them it will get worse. No amount of money thrown at the problem will ever help. The whole thing boils down to poor parenting or no parenting!!

2) Comment by BRmoderate - 08/08/2012

My thoughts and prayers go out to them Jchris...

3) Comment by Jchris - 08/08/2012

Just so you people know. Travis was a good friend of mine. This wasn't drug related in any way. Totally random occurrence. He left behind a wife and 2 week old son that meant everything to him that he was trying to support. Not a way to have to raise a child with him never knowing a dad that was going to do everything he could to take care of you.

4) Comment by BRmoderate - 08/08/2012

Tradewins... I grew up in the ghetto and can tell you that Thugs don't give a _____ about the punishment. They are lazy, undereducated hooligans who rob/steal bc they have no respect for common decency or human life. They are selfish goons who think that they can get away with it.

5) Comment by tradewinns - 08/08/2012

until the punishment exceeds the perceived value of the crime, crime will continue to grow. case in point is the two yet not apprehended two men. they robbed and for no apparant reson shot and killed a man. these two should be caught, tried (if convicted) sentenced to death, and within 5 years executed. it may not stop the robbery (death penalty is due to murder) immediately, but they would think about not killing the victim if execution was a real probability (currently it is not considered as even likely) and quickly. not a full life span before even the most dispicable are executed.

6) Comment by markedwardmarchiafava - 08/08/2012

A Baton Rouge city cop asked "why do you wear a gun in public?" MY answer: "haven't you heard? Baton Rouge is a dangerous place."

7) Comment by 8point6 - 08/08/2012

@Springer98: So true.

8) Comment by spqr - 08/08/2012

I cannot wait to retire and leave this city.

9) Comment by The_Host - 08/08/2012

And yet people will still ask why anyone feels the need to carry a gun with them.

10) Comment by Springer98 - 07/08/2012

Police are looking for two black male suspects believed to be in their late teens -- Each generation that passes has less respect for human life than the last. It is hard to even imagine what it will be like after another generation or two passes!!

11) Comment by nimby? - 07/08/2012

over the years I've noticed many incidents in B R similar taking place on streets named after states , birds , presidents and poets ....

12) Comment by foldgers - 07/08/2012

And the wheels on the bus go round and round...

13) Comment by Chucky - 07/08/2012

and another one bites the dust