By Bonnie Culverhouse

A Bossier City man charged with first degree murder was in 26th Judicial District Court Monday for a status conference that reportedly turned into a shouting match.

Sources said Jacorein Richardson was expected to accept a plea agreement offered by Assistant District Attorney Hugo Holland. However, when Richardson changed his mind, “folks from both sides started yelling at each other and the courtroom had to be cleared.”

According to court minutes, the August 12, 2024 trial is reset for December 16, 2024 as priority no. 1, and there will be no continuances.

Richardson, who was 19 at the time, is accused of killing three-year-old Aldravion Taylor in a drive-by shooting on Plum Street in August 2021.

Two hours earlier, a 19-year-old man, identified as Damarion Richardson, was shot and killed in a convenience store parking lot on Second Street in Arcadia. Bienville sheriff’s detectives said Damarion Richardson of Arcadia and the alleged shooter, Shamichael Murphy, 24, also of Arcadia, had been involved in an ongoing feud.

“The night the baby was killed, (Jacorein Richardson) was in Arcadia at that time,” then-Minden Police Chief Steve Cropper said at the time of the incident. “We feel this was a retaliation to the death in Arcadia. Richardson was a cousin of the victim in that shooting.

“One of the men in the house on Plum Street was one of the ones arrested in the Bienville shooting,” Cropper continued. “He was not charged with the actual homicide, but he was charged with illegal use of a firearm. He was in the house on Plum Street when the drive-by shooting occurred.”

Jacorein Richardson was indicted for first degree murder by a grand jury in September 2021.

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