French Quarter:--- The gendarmes have detained one of the three persons who were in the St. Georges house where 18 year old Gerald James Jr. was shot dead. Assisting the gendarmes is a well known youth from French Quarter, he has been identified as K.F (18). According to well placed sources the young man was detained on Friday morning, he was later seen with detectives at a house in French Quarter where the gendarmes seized a motorcycle. K.F and the victim along with a 16 year old girl was inside the house allegedly playing video games when an unknown gunman walked into the house and began firing shots, most of which caught James Jr. killing him on the spot.SMN News has been reliably informed that a 16-year old girl also from Middle Region was in the house when James was shot to death. It is further understood that the gendarmes will be picking up the teenager at a later date to determine who exactly killed James and why he was shot.
Efforts made to get more information on the ongoing murder investigation proved futile on Friday. Thursday's homicide is the second for the year 2011 on the French side. The first was committed in Sandy Ground.
