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

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. Investigators in the Central City-based Sixth District said late last week they had not yet spoken to Williams about his involvement the additional cases since his return to New Orleans.

Williams’ own son, 2-year-old Jeremy Galmon, was killed in the same sort of gunfight after a second-line parade in September, and Williams participated in the joint funeral and protest against violence alongside Mayor Mitch Landrieu.