[StBernard] Follow-up To 18-year-old Chalmette Man Shooting 15-year-old Girlfriend

[Westley Annis]

Follow-up To 18-year-old Chalmette Man Shooting 15-year-old Girlfriend 
Written by WGNO ABC26 News | Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:15 
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A judge Thursday set a $250,000 bond on an 18-year-old Chalmette man booked
with attempted murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend on Tuesday night, Sept.
21.

The girl survived when she was only grazed to the top left of her head by a
bullet fired at close range as she sat on the porch of her residence in
Chalmette, Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Dylan Landry, 3316 Shangri-La Drive, is being held in St. Bernard Parish
Prison in lieu of being able to post the bond set by state District Judge
Jacques Sanborn.

The victim, whose name hasn't been released, was treated and has been
released from University Hospital in New Orleans for a wound to the head.
The girl went inside after she was shot on the porch and the grandmother
called the Sheriff's Office.

The shooting happened on West Magnolia Drive in Chalmette just before 11
p.m.

It was the first shooting in which someone was injured in St. Bernard 
Parish since June 2009, Pohlmann said.

Sheriff's detectives said Landry, who had been drinking, argued with the
girl before pulling the weapon and shooting at her once from close range,
then drove away in a car. A casing was found on the door mat near the front
door and a .45-caliber projectile penetrated the door and was found on the
floor of the house near the kitchen.

Landry, who has several minor arrests in his past, was taken into custody a
short time after the shooting.

Pohlmann said Landry's car was found several blocks away in the 3400 block
of Fenelon Drive. After obtaining a search warrant, officers found a cocked
.45-caliber handgun in the car, as well as several pills and Landry's
wallet.

Ballistics tests on the recovered weapon are pending, Pohlmann said.