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Pineville woman accused in triple homicide to be arraigned again next month
By Melissa Gregory
Alexandria Town Talk
Ebony Nicole Sonnier, accused with her brother in a 2017 Rapides Parish triple homicide, will be arraigned on an amended indictment next month.
It's the second amended indictment against the 34-year-old Sonnier, who faces the death penalty.
This amended indictment, filed on Aug. 11, charges her with three counts of first-degree murder in the October 2017 deaths of Jeremy Deon "Apple" Norris, 28; Kendrick Dwann "Nerd" Horn, 33; and Latish Renee White, 42.
The November 2017 indictment also was amended in August 2019, splitting the murder counts from two obstruction of justice counts.
The state alleges that Sonnier and her brother, Matthew Sonnier, killed Norris and then killed Horn and White because they were witnesses to Norris' death.
White's body was found early on Oct. 18, 2017, on Melrose Street in Pineville. She had been stabbed multiple times.
The bodies of Norris and Horn were found later that same morning, wrapped in a pool liner in a ditch on Old Boyce Road outside Alexandria. The bodies were discovered after someone reported a fire in the ditch.
The obstruction charges allege that Sonnier moved Norris' and Horn's bodies from the place they were killed, cleaned blood from a vehicle and removed firearms from a vehicle and then wrapped the two bodies in the liner and with cables and set them on fire.
Sonnier will be arraigned on Sept. 16 before 9th Judicial District Court Judge Mary Lauve Doggett.
Her trial date also was reset during a Tuesday hearing. The new date is Aug. 2, 2021.
Both the state and defense agreed that jury selection could take five to eight days, while the trial could last three to five days. Potential jurors will be asked to complete a questionnaire on July 29-30, 2021, the Thursday and Friday before jury selection starts.
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