Raycom Group
March 24, 2015
Bossier Parish sheriff’s investigators have arrested a Shreveport man in connection with the murder of a woman found dead in the Haughton area Sunday.
According to a statement released by the Bossier Sheriff’s Office late Monday afternoon, 34-year-old Nathaniel Allen Mingo is charged with 2nd degree murder for the killing of 33-year-old Amanda Collins of Elm Grove.
Police say Collins was an acquaintance of Mingo’s.
Mingo was taken into custody following a brief struggle around noon Monday in west Shreveport by the following agencies: Bossier Sheriff’s Office investigators; U.S. Marshals Violent Offender Task Force (members on scene included Bossier Sheriff’s Office, Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, Shreveport Police Department, Bossier City Police Department, Louisiana State Police and U.S. Marshals Service); Shreveport Police Department K-9 officers and Deputy U. S. Marshals.
Bossier Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies were contacted around 11:30 a.m. Sunday after a landowner reported an unknown truck in their pasture some 300 yards off of the roadway of the 4500 block of Highway 157.
“They didn’t have any business in there, I mean my hay is up there, my cows are up there, but what are you up there for,” asked Gracie Cooper.
Gracie Cooper owns land off Highway 157 just outside of Haughton. Sunday morning, her niece spotted a truck she did not recognize in the field, they had driven straight through her land to get back there.
“It was an easy pass through back there, and no one would detect you back that far it’s dark at night,” said Cooper.