2 dead after Easter Sunday shootings in Alexandria; 1 man arrested in Hill Street shooting
Police are investigating two homicides that happened on Easter Sunday in Alexandria.
The first happened around 3 a.m., when the Alexandria Police Department responded to a report of gunfire in the 4100 block of Pisciotta Street, which is in a neighborhood off 3rd Street.
Jessie Tatum III, 49, was found dead when officers arrived, reads a news release.
Then, around 12:45 p.m., police were sent to the 1800 block of Hill Street for a shooting. They found a 23-year-old man, Derrick Ford Jr. of Alexandria, wounded.
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Ford was taken to a hospital, where he died, reads a separate news release.
Online Rapides Parish jail records show a 21-year-old male who resides in the 1800 block of Hill Street was booked late Sunday on a charge of second-degree murder.
Bail for Reginald Dwayne Pullins has been set at $1 million, and an early Monday news release states he turned himself in the Ford shooting case.
This article originally appeared on Alexandria Town Talk: Man arrested in 1 of 2 fatal Alexandria Easter Sunday killings
