The trial for a Shreveport man charged with second-degree murder in-connection with the 2022 shooting death of a 13-year-old girl began Monday, months after the case . The trial of Kenmichael Ray, 25, began in Shreveport Monday morning with jury selection in the court of Caddo Parish Judge Ramona Emanuel, as a panel of fourteen potential jurors fielded questions from prosecutor Ron Stamps. Jeff Landry, frontrunner in the race for Louisiana's next governor, put a spotlight on Caddo Parish crime in a recent ad which cast him as the.
.. Ray is accused of killing Shreveport teen Landry Faith Anglin by firing a bullet during a rolling gun battle that went through the window of a South Highland home and struck Anglin in the back on May 1, 2022, according to case documents.
Four others were charged with crimes in connection with the shootout, Stamps said in the court proceedings. Keara Russell of Irvine, Texas pleaded no contest to charges of failure to report the commission of certain felonies and was sentenced to one year in prison in April of 2023, according to court records. Ray is the only one of the individuals charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents.
The case was featured in a Jeff Landry campaign ad ahead of the October 2023 gubernatorial primary in which Landry sailed to an outright victory. Anglin's mother, Michelle, endorsed Landry in the ad and shared the story of her daughter's murder. "My daughter was creative, happy, excited about the future.
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