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September 28, 2014
Three teenage boys are accused of participating in the murder of a pizza deliveryman in Mid-City this week, a New Orleans police detective testified Friday, and the mother of one said she fears her son faces a possible life sentence because of his poor choice of friends.
The case against the two teens in custody – Shane Hughes and Rendell Brown, both 16 – moved forward Friday when a juvenile court judge found there was enough evidence to jail them on charges of first-degree murder. The judge also agreed to send the case to Criminal District Court, where prosecutors will try them as adults in the slaying of Domino’s Pizza driver Richard “Chris” Yeager.
A third teen – Brown’s younger brother Rejean, who is either 15 or 14 – also is wanted by police. NOPD homicide Detective Wayne DeLarge testified he eluded police when his brother and Hughes were arrested Monday night.
Brown’s mother, wearing a blue T-shirt inscribed with the words “Proud Believe Parent,” declined to speak and hurried into a waiting SUV following the detention hearing before Orleans Parish Juvenile Court Judge Mark Doherty. Tamika Hughes wiped away tears as she left the courthouse and said she thought her son Shane was led astray by Rendell Brown.
“I just wish he hadn’t been around that boy,” she said. “I’m sure he was (influenced). Shane is easily influenced. He’s a good boy.”
The two mothers sat adjacent but did not speak to each other at the hearing. Brown’s mother sat impassively, while Tamika Hughes gasped, put her hands to her face and wept when DeLarge testified that Yeager, 35, had sustained 10 gunshot wounds.
The detective said Yeager was pronounced dead Monday at 12:14 a.m., left in the middle of the street with his 2004 Toyota Corolla stolen, minutes after he had delivered a pizza to the 2800 block of St. Louis Street in Mid-City.
Hughes already has implicated himself and the Brown brothers in the crime, DeLarge testified. In an interview with police detectives and his mother present, the teen “stated he saw the pizza man get shot,” DeLarge said, and “stated that he, Rendell Brown and Rendell Brown’s brother were at the scene of the homicide.”
DeLarge said Shane Hughes also admitted that his fingerprints and DNA would be found inside Yeager’s car, which the detective said was recovered shortly after 5:15 p.m. Monday after being involved in a hit-and-run near the corner of Pine and Forshey streets in Gert Town.
DeLarge said police have not recovered the weapon used in Yeager’s murder. But police did find a T-shirt in the victim’s stolen car from Cohen College Prep, the Uptown high school he said Hughes and Brown attend.
The three are also facing charges in connection with a violent carjacking on Newcomb Boulevard in Uptown, a second NOPD detective, Jerry Devorak, testified. That case currently remains in juvenile court.
Police previously only revealed that one of the teens arrested in the Domino’s slaying was linked to the Saturday carjacking, in which a 50-year-old woman was approached in her driveway by three assailants and beaten in the face with a gun by one young man whose face was covered by a blue-and-white bandana.
The woman suffered a broken nose, cracked eye socket and nasal fracture. The trio fled with her 2008 silver Volvo and a purse containing her checkbook, ID and $1,300 in cash, a police report said.
