Two people have been arrested in Louisiana in connection with the fatal Monday shooting that left two men dead, according to Lafayette police.
18-year-old Alayna Moreau and 21-year-old Zaylin Sion have been arrested in a joint operation by Lafayette Police Department officers and deputies with the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Sion was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder and a count of illegal discharge of a weapon, while Moreau was arrested on two counts of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Both were booked into the West Baton Rouge Parish Jail.
Moreau and Sion are accused in the deaths of 21-year-old Denzel Smith and 22-year-old Codie Laday.
Smith and Laday were shot outside of a residence in the 100 block of South Orleans Drive around 9:45 p.m. Monday. Lafayette officers responded to reports of a shooting in progress and found the men suffering from gunshot wounds. Handy said there was evidence to suggest the shooting was a drive-by.
Officers rendered aid, but one of the men died at the scene and the other was pronounced dead at a local hospital after being transported by ambulance.
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