[StBernard] St. Bernard resident arrested for shooting 19-year-old to death on Violet sidewalk

[Westley Annis]

St. Bernard resident arrested for shooting 19-year-old to death on Violet
sidewalk
Print Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Benjamin
Alexander-Bloch, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune 

An 18-year-old St. Bernard Parish man, who had moved from Plaquemines about
two months ago, was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with
second-degree murder for allegedly shooting a 19-year-old man to death on a
Violet sidewalk the day before.

Grid Reddick, 18, is being held in the death of Truy Jones, 19, who was shot
multiple times in the 3100 block of Daniel Drive, near East Genie Street in
Violet. Jones had resided at several addresses in Chalmette and Meraux.

Sheriff Jimmy Pohlmann said Reddick agreed to be questioned by detectives
Wednesday afternoon and later was arrested. He was booked into St. Bernard
Parish Prison less than 24 hours after the shooting, Pohlmann said.

Sheriff's deputies had found Jones dead on the sidewalk just before 8 p.m.
Tuesday after the department received calls about the shooting.

A state judge is expected to set a bond in the case on Thursday.

Pohlmann said on Thursday that he wouldn't discuss a possible motive or
other details of the investigation.

The fatal shooting on Tuesday was the third murder of the year in St.
Bernard, according to the Sheriff's Office, which now has made arrests in
all three of those cases.