Updated 2:06 pm EST, 1/25/2015
The two men responsible for firing several bullets into an eastern New Orleans home, killing an 18-year-old and Dillard University nursing student and injuring her boyfriend, now faces charges of second-degree murder. Myron Jackson, 28, and Jeffrey Washington, 23, trial begins this week.
Dillard student Marguerite Washington was killed in the incident that occurred in 2012 after being struck by a “stray bullet fired” through the window of her boyfriend’s Branch Drive home, according to reports.
From NOLA.com, “Police said the bullets fired were meant for Washington’s boyfriend, Justin Alexander, and not her.”
“Marguerite Washington — who is not related to Jeffrey Washington — “was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time” Assistant District Attorney Rhonda Goode-Douglas told a group of jurors seated in the trial Wednesday (Jan. 21) morning,” according to NOLA.com.
The trial, which starts this week, is expected to last several days, reports says.
