The man accused of chasing two women in his car and shooting them, killing one, is also accused of stealing his grandmother’s car at gunpoint.
Gage Quevedeaux, 20, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and violation of a non-disclosure order after he allegedly shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a Henderson business. One of them died, officials said.
Eunice police say after the shooting, a man drove to the Eunice Walmart and carjacked a grandmother and her grandchild.
The grandmother told police she had returned to her car from shopping and had just loaded the toddler into the car. As she was talking to her grandson, a man’s voice could be heard coming from her open driver’s side door. She saw a man standing there with a handgun. The gun was pointed at the ground.
The grandmother told police the man told her he didn’t mean to hurt her, but that he needed her car. Eunice police said she asked if he could take her baby and the man let him do so. The man then asked for her wallet, so the woman gave it to him and ran to the store with her grandson to call the police. The man left in her car.
A short time later, Eunice police received a call from a St. Martin Parish sheriff’s deputy informing them that Quevedeaux, the suspect in Henderson’s murder, was on his way to Eunice.
Deputies said Quebedeaux was driving a black pickup truck. Eunice police found it in a Walmart parking lot, just minutes away from where the grandmother’s car was stolen.
According to Eunice police, St. Martin police officers were ringing Quevedeaux’s cell phone in Eunice around the same time the carjacking occurred.
The grandmother’s car was recovered Wednesday afternoon, and Quevedeaux was arrested and booked into St. Martin Parish Jail.
He also will eventually be arrested in Eunice for armed robbery and carjacking, Eunice police said.
The shooting occurred around 7 a.m. Wednesday. St. Maarten deputies were called to the parking lot of a business in Henderson.
When police arrived at the scene, they learned that a man identified as Quebedeaux chased the two women into a parking lot and fired several shots into their vehicle. The driver and passenger were both shot, and one died on the way to a hospital.
The suspect then fled the scene, but officers learned that Quebedeaux traveled to Eunice, where he is suspected of abandoning his vehicle and carjacking a bystander. He drove to Hammond, took Interstate 10 and returned to St. Martin Parish, where he was arrested by police at the Atchafalaya Welcome Center in Butte-LaRose around 1 p.m.
The sheriff said the Henderson Police Department, Eunice Police Department and Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office assisted in the investigation.