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Father of slain toddler extradited from Texas on charge related to Uptown shooting

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The father of a 2-year-old whose death from a stray bullet during a Central City gun battle sparked citywide outcry over gun violence last fall has been arrested and extradited from Texas on a charge connected with a shooting in March that wounded another bystander, a mother pushing her children in a stroller along Louisiana Avenue Parkway. Jeremy Williams, 21, remains jailed on a $250,000 bond for a charge of principal to attempted second-degree murder, according to jail records. He was located in a Semiard Avenue apartment complex in Houston by the NOPD’s violent-offenders warrant squad and arrested by U.S. Marshals, then extradited by the district attorney’s office, police said. Williams was one of two men wanted after a March 18 drive-by near Louisiana Avenue Parkway and Broad Street left a woman with gunshot wound to the back, police said. But his name also surfaced in a number of shooting investigations around the same time: a drive-by on Magnolia, an ambush on Second that wounded three people, and another mid-afternoon shootout in front of A.L. Davis park in Central City.

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NOPD: Man shot to death at edge of Broadmoor, near Claiborne

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A man was fatally shot on Louisiana Avenue Parkway early Sunday morning, police said. The man was found lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest about 3:20 a.m. in the 3000 block of Louisiana Avenue Parkway, the first block on the lake side of Claiborne Avenue, police said. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene, according to a news release from the NOPD Second District. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s office identified the victim as 27-year-old Melvin Yovany Montes on Monday, according to The Times-Picayune. No suspects or motive in the shooting has been described.