[StBernard] Chance Home Depot meeting sparks Chalmette shooting

[Westley Annis]

Well it sounds like they need to have I.C.E. come into the parish and do
some green-card checking.

JY




	
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	Chance Home Depot meeting sparks Chalmette shooting
	by The Times-Picayune 
	Thursday February 05, 2009, 1:56 PM
	
	Photo: http://adjix.com/523g
	
	The shooting apparently stemmed from a chance meeting inside the
Home Depot
	store on West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette. 
	
	Neither victim was seriously injured, the St. Bernard Parish
Sheriff's
	Office said. 
	
	The couple, who are from El Salvador but live in Chalmette, told
deputies
	that they saw a man they identified as Jose "Alex'' Rojas in the
	Home Depot.
	They said that the husband knew Rojas
	 from El Salvador, where the husband
	claimed Rojas has murdered his brother 15 years ago. 
	
	Nothing happened during the meeting inside the store, but as the
couple
	pulled out of the parking lot onto West Judge Perez Drive, a
Chevrolet
	Blazer with Rojas inside pulled alongside the victims. Someone began
firing
	from inside the Blazer, authorities said. 
	
	A bullet grazed the husband on the jaw; another bullet grazed his
wife in
	the hand, the Sheriff's Office said. 
	
	Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Rojas is asked to call
the St.
	Bernard Sheriff's Office at 504.271.2501. 
	
	The Sheriff's Office said it was obtaining a warrant accusing Rojas
of
	attempted murder.
	
	The Sheriff's Office said Rojas' last known local address was in
	eastern New
	Orleans, but that deputies who went to the residence could not find
him. His
	landlord said Rojas had moved out.
	
	Deputies said Rojas might be
	 traveling in a white, 1994 Honda Civic, with
	Louisiana license plate RWZ253.