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A4 U.S. NEWS
Monday 28 January 2019

Louisiana murder suspect caught at grandma's Virginia home

GONZALES, La. (AP) — A County Sheriff Stephan B. did have a violent streak,"
21-year-old man suspect- Smith said in a phone in- Mincks said.
ed of killing his parents and terview. The woman asked Theriot will be brought back
three other people — in- authorities to check her to Ascension Parish to be
cluding a girl he was dat- house Sunday morning to booked on two counts of
ing — was arrested Sunday ensure it was safe before first-degree murder, home
when he drove up with a she returned. invasion, and illegal use of
gun to his grandmother's While deputies were there, weapons, said a statement
house in Virginia, a sheriff Smith said, Theriot drove up by Ascension Parish Sheriff
said. with a firearm pointed out Bobby Webre and Livings-
On Saturday, Dakota The- the window of a pickup. ton Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.
riot shot and killed three A sheriff's statement said Authorities have identified
people — the woman be- deputies sought cover and the victims in Livingston Par-
lieved to be his girlfriend, challenged Theriot, who ish as Billy Ernest, 43; Tanner
her brother and father — in then dropped the gun and Ernest, 17; and Summer Er-
Louisiana's Livingston Par- was arrested without inci- nest, 20. Ard said Summer
ish before taking her fa- dent. Smith said the pickup Ernest and Dakota Theriot
ther's pickup truck, driving Theriot drove apparently were in a relationship and
to neighboring Ascension was the one taken in Louisi- that Theriot had been liv-
Parish, and shooting his ana. In Louisiana, at a trail- ing with her family for a few
parents, according to au- er where the suspect's par- weeks.
thorities. ents lived, drops of blood Authorities said earlier that
Theriot's grandmother in trailed out to the front steps Keith Theriot survived the
Warsaw, Virginia, had from the bedroom where shooting long enough to
This photo provided by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office checked into a hotel Satur- Keith and Elizabeth Theriot let them know who shot
shows Dakota Theriot on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. day night, fearing he might were shot. In the bedroom, him. According to Webre,
Associated Press
show up there, Richmond blood-soaked pillows were officials got a "dying dec-
strewn on a bed, and laration from him, and only
patches of what appeared enough information to let
to be dried blood were on us know that it was his son
the floor. Dozens of stuffed that committed this act."
animals decorated the Mincks and Chastant only
room. returned to the trailer Sun-
Kim Mincks and Jacob day morning, worried Da-
Chastant also lived in the kota Theriot might come
trailer and were friends back. Mincks said she'd
with the Theriots. Mincks known Keith and Elizabeth
said she was in the house Theriot for about two years
at the opposite end of the and described them as
trailer when the shooting wonderful people. Keith
happened but added she Theriot was a disabled vet-
didn't hear anything. Law eran who played a wicked
enforcement officers came guitar, and Elizabeth The-
into her room Saturday riot worked at a nearby
morning and woke her. Dollar General Store, they
"They said something ter- said. Keith Theriot had four
rible happened here. 'Get children, all boys, they said.
up, get dressed and walk "Give you the shirt off their
outside,' " she recalled back. They loved every-
them saying. body. Never met a strang-
Mincks and Chastant said er. Loved each other. Just
Dakota Theriot had strug- a happy couple," she said.
gled with drugs over the But the relationship be-
years, had violent outbursts, tween Dakota Theriot and
and had recently been his parents, especially his
kicked out of the trailer. father, was troubled. She
"We know he had a drug and Chastant described
problem. He got kicked out an incident in which Chas-
last Monday because of tant had to pull Dakota The-
the drug problem. His dad riot off his parents during a
kicked him out of here. He physical altercation.q