[StBernard] Two arrested following Chalmette murder

[Westley Annis]

Two arrested following Chalmette murder

12:01 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Chad Bower / Eyewitness News 

Two arrests have been made two days after a Chalmette man was murdered after
answering a knock at the front door of his brother's home, said a St.
Bernard sheriff's spokesman. 

Timothy Reddick, 42, of Pointe a La Hache and Lavell Cross, 21, of Algiers
were both booked with second degree murder Wednesday in connection with the
murder of Vantrell Bienemy. They are being held in Orleans Parish Prison and
are waiting to be transported to St. Bernard. 

Bienemy was shot inside his brother's home Monday just before midnight after
he went to answer a knock at the front door of his brother's home. Bullet
holes pierced the door, and Bienemy was shot several times through the door.


Deputies said that Bienemy, who was on a cell phone at the time, answered
the door but then quickly shut it after a second knock. It was then that he
was shot through the door. 

He was shot three times: twice in his stomach and once in his buttocks. 

The killing was the third homicide of the year in St. Bernard Parish.