[StBernard] New Orleans men arrested for shooting death in Chalmette

[Westley Annis]

New Orleans men arrested for shooting death in Chalmette

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Posted on July 12, 2013 at 4:29 PM

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ST. BERNARD, La. -- Authorities investigating the homicide of a New Orleans
man who was driven to Chalmette at night and shot dead have arrested a
second man in connection with the case.

Joseph Guillory of New Orleans rode to Chalmette with murder-suspect James
"Fatt" Madison of New Orleans when the victim was taken out and shot by
Madison, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Polhmann said the body of of 33-year-old Herman "Peanut'' Jones Jr. of New
Orleans was found the next morning on a street in an industrial area north
of Paris Road around the Orleans parish line.

Detectives said an investigation led to Madison's arrest in April and now to
Guillory.

Detectives found video surveillance from French Quarter businesses from the
March 16 killing that identified the vehicle used to bring Jones to the
murder scene, authorities said.

That vehicle was recovered in Kenner in late March, brought to St. Bernard
and was processed for forensic evidence that was given to the State Police
crime lab, Pohlman said.

Their investigation took detectives to Memphis, Tenn. where authorities
interviewed the 31-year-old Madison about the murder. Madison acknowledged
knowing the victim and being with him in New Orleans the night of March 16,
less than an hour before Jones was murdered, detectives said.

Madison was arrested for second-degree murder in the killing of Jones in
mid-April after an investigation and is held on a $1 million bond in St.
Bernard Parish Prison. A grand jury recently indicted him on a first-degree
murder charge.

An associate of Madison, the 34-year-old Guillory was placed in the parish
Prison a $250,000 bond.

"We have identified a motive for the killing of Mr. Jones but aren't going
to reveal it at this time,'' Sheriff Pohlmann said. The investigation is
ongoing, he said.