Nola
May 21, 2015
With a jury waiting in the wings to hear opening statements in a five-year-old murder case and the victim’s family packing the courtroom gallery, a New Orleans judge on Tuesday (May 19) declined to grant Joshua Lee’s last-minute request to toss out the charges.
Lee, 23, is accused in the April 22, 2010, death of Chad Huth and the wounding of Huth’s friend, during a home invasion in Gentilly. They were in Huth’s home, in the 5300 block of Cameron Boulevard, at about 1 a.m. when gunmen stormed through the front door and started shooting.
Huth was shot several times and died in his bathroom. His friend, then 23, was shot but escaped to hide under a neighbor’s house, police said. A third person in the house was not injured.
A 2004 graduate of Holy Cross High School, Huth was studying to become an electrician, his family said at the time.