A New Orleans man who allegedly shot and killed an acquaintance June 14 was arrested last week, according to documents filed in Criminal District Court.
Louis Scott, 33, was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on June 26 on one count of second degree murder, the documents said.
Police found the victim, later identified as Trayvon Howard, 24, on the floor of a house in the 4600 block of Lonely Oak Drive in Plum Orchard in New Orleans East. Someone called 911 at 12:48 p.m. that day saying they heard gunshots, according to the court documents.
Howard was lying face up on the dining room floor inside the house, and when paramedics pronounced him dead shortly after arriving at the scene.
In interviews with detectives, two witnesses told police that a man named "Lou" went to the house in Plum Orchard and got into a physical fight with Howard, police wrote in the documents.
During the fight, Scott allegedly pulled out a gun and Howard began to fight to take it from him. Scott kept control of the gun and allegedly shot Howard multiple times before driving off in his black BMW, the documents said.
Witnesses identified Scott through a lineup.
Magistrate Commissioner Brigid Collins set Scott's bond to $500,000 June 27. Howard's family and friends weren't immediately available for comment.
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