re: Update: Alleged Perp in custody: Garret James Ward of BR for 2nd Degree murder

This thread has run its course. Your friend is a TPOS that beat a fragile 60 year old diabetic to death for no apparent reason. I hope he spends the rest of his life in jail. There’s nothing else to discuss, except that I would suggest you find new friends.

It’s definitelty possible that he’s guilty and needs to spend a long time, if not life, in prison.

I also think it’s possible there’s more to the story.

I think the video surveillance and witness accounts, assuming there are either, would shed some more light in helping to determine exactly what went down.

I still don’t think it’s “normal” for a mid 20’s professional to beat a 60yo man for no reason. Maybe Ward isn’t “normal” and deserves to rot in jail, but there was something that happened that lead to this altercation, and I’d like to know what it was. And that something doesn’t necessarily have to be something that exonerates Ward, it could actually make him look worse (beating on a female), but nonetheless something happened that lead to this incident/confrontation.

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I still don’t think it’s “normal” for a mid 20’s professional to beat a 60yo man for no reason. Maybe Ward isn’t “normal” and deserves to rot in jail, but there was something that happened that lead to this altercation, and I’d like to know what it was. And that something doesn’t necessarily have to be something that exonerates Ward, it could actually make him look worse (beating on a female), but nonetheless something happened that lead to this incident/confrontation.

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"Normal" people drink and do dumb shite all the time.

Glad this was bumped. Can't wait to see shitbag ward in prison

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What is the latest on this story?

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He is enjoy his last Mardi Gras and Super Bowl as a free bro

Bump.

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He was totally wasted and stumbling around just three months ago and claims he was robbed of his Luccheses (by a red haired man in a fedora) when bystanders told police to go check on him.

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NOPD records show Ward told police early on Sept. 2 that he was intoxicated when he was robbed at knifepoint in a parking lot near the Tchoup House restaurant. Police made contact with him about 3:40 a.m. that Sunday after someone flagged down the officers down in the Central Business District at Tchoupitoulas Street and Andrew Higgins Boulevard. The people who flagged police down pointed to Ward and said he needed medical attention, a police report states. The report, which details the officers' encounter with Ward and two interviews with him, describes him as at different points during their interview as "very intoxicated" and "hostile." After Ward had been treated for injuries at hospital that night, the report states, he was more cooperative with police. It was not immediately clear in the report how Ward received his injuries, which included a possible broken jaw and abrasions on his head. At one point bystanders said Ward was hit by a car, but Ward told police he fell down, the report states.

When an ambulance arrived to take Ward to a hospital, an officer wrote in the report, Ward "blurted out that he had been robbed." Ward then told officers "he and a friend were outside the Tchoup House Restaurant when someone held a knife against his throat and robbed him of his boots," states the report. Officer Brady, the report states, then "observed that Ward was only wearing socks."

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Ward told police, according to the report, that the red-haired man in the fedora told him, "That's some fine boots! Are those Lucchese boots?"  

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It's not looking good for Ward.

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It's not looking good for Ward.

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That's kinda hilarious. Assuming this is the perp.

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The report, which details the officers' encounter with Ward and two interviews with him, describes him as at different points during their interview as "very intoxicated" and "hostile." After Ward had been treated for injuries at hospital that night, the report states, he was more cooperative with police. It was not immediately clear in the report how Ward received his injuries, which included a possible broken jaw and abrasions on his head. At one point bystanders said Ward was hit by a car, but Ward told police he fell down, the report states.

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Remember when people said drunken murder incident was totally our of character for this guy? I member

Yep, two encounters in the past 90 days with NOPD. Once you were stumbling around in socks and came up with a bullshite robbery story as you became hostile with the people trying to help you, and the second time you beat someone to death and couldn't stand up when they found you.


Remember the Prieur stuff from the Gasser thread? Fact : this incident is coming in if he made the mistake of proceeding to trial.