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    Tracy Young Pleads Guilty in 2006 LA Murder of Aaron Arnold, Sentenced to LWOP

    A state judge set a Jan. 12 trial date Thursday for the alleged triggerman in the 2006 murder of an LSU student outside the Olive Garden restaurant on Siegen Lane.

    Tracy Young, 30, is charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the shooting death of 21-year-old Aaron Arnold of Zachary and the wounding of 28-year-old Dionne Grayson.

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    Young’s alleged accomplice, 23-year-old Sanchez Brumfield, was convicted May 28 on the same charges Young faces. The jury recommended that Brumfield die by lethal injection.

    District Judge Todd Hernandez is scheduled to formally sentence Brumfield on Dec. 2.

    In setting Young’s trial date for Jan. 12, Hernandez bumped another capital murder trial set the same day for the Baton Rouge man charged in the October shooting death of a security guard at Pete’s Farmer’s Market on Airline Highway.

    Derrick Williams, 25, was scheduled to stand trial Jan. 12 in the shooting death of 71-year-old Alfred Mequet.

    Prosecutor Aaron Brooks asked Hernandez to set Young’s trial for Sept. 29, but Young’s attorneys — Mark Marinoff and Margaret Lagattuta — said they have too much work to do in the case to be ready for that date. They also said the court transcript of Brumfield’s trial is not yet available.

    The defense lawyers added that they continue to investigate claims that Brumfield told another inmate he knows who actually shot Arnold and Grayson — suggesting that someone other than Young might have pulled the trigger.

    Brooks told the judge that indications from Brumfield’s attorneys are that Brumfield “does not wish to participate at all’’ in Young’s case.

    When Lagattuta noted that the Olive Garden case precedes the Pete’s Farmer’s Market case and suggested that Young’s trial could be moved into Williams’ Jan. 12 trial date slot, Brooks agreed as long as the Young trial is not delayed further.

    Arnold and Grayson were shot the night of Sept. 8, 2006, in the parking lot behind the Olive Garden while Arnold was helping Grayson put gas in her car.

    The jury found that Brumfield, who was sitting in a parked car, ordered the shooting of the victims during a botched robbery attempt.

    Brumfield’s attorneys argued that Brumfield and Young pulled into the parking lot to switch seats because Young was too drunk to drive. Young saw Arnold and Grayson and made a split-second decision to rob them, leaving Brumfield in the car as an unwilling accessory to the robbery and murder, the defense claimed.

    http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/22966984.html

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    Judge sets trial date in fatal restaurant shooting

    A judge has set a March 21 trial date for the alleged triggerman in the September 2006 slaying of an Olive Garden employee outside the Baton Rouge restaurant.

    State District Judge Don Johnson set the trial date on Thursday.

    The Advocate reports 32-year-old Tracy Young of Baton Rouge is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Arron Arnold and wounding fellow worker Dionne Grayson while Arnold helped Grayson put gasoline in her car behind the restaurant on Sept. 8, 2006.

    Grayson identified Young as the shooter.

    Young's alleged accomplice, 25-year-old Sanchez Brumfield, was convicted and sentenced to death in May 2008.

    Prosecutors also intend to seek the death penalty against Young if he is convicted of first-degree murder.

    http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20100910/NEWS01/100910009/-1/rss01

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    Jury to be chosen to hear killing of Baton Rouge restaurant employee

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man charged with killing a restaurant worker in Baton Rouge more than four years ago.

    Jury selection begins Monday in the first-degree murder trial of 33-year-old Tracy Young of Baton Rouge.

    Young is charged in the death of 21-year-old Aaron Arnold and the wounding of fellow worker Dionne Grayson while Arnold helped Grayson put gasoline in her car behind the restaurant on Sept. 8, 2006

    The Advocate reports an East Baton Rouge Parish jury convicted Young's alleged accomplice, 28-year-old Sanchez Brumfield also of Baton Rouge, of first-degree murder in May 2008. He was sentenced to death.

    Prosecutors said the two victims were the victim of a robbery attempt.

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...urant-Killing/

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    Man pleads guilty in murder case

    In the midst of jury selection, a Baton Rouge man pleaded guilty in a 2006 shooting death of a server at a restaurant.

    Tracy Young, 33, admitted Friday to fatally shooting Aaron Arnold, an Oliver Garden restaurant server. In exchange for pleading guilty, Young will receive a life sentence. He had been facing a possible death sentence. The Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper reports that he entered the guilty plea to first-degree murder on the fifth day of jury selection in his trial.

    East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said he would seek a life sentence for Young's convicted accomplice, who was sentenced to death in 2008. Moore said he plans to make that offer to Sanchez Brumfield's lawyers. Arnold was a 21-year-old Louisiana State University pre-med student from Zachary. Young was accused of fatally shooting Arnold and wounding Dionne Grayson during a botched robbery while Arnold helped Grayson put gas in her car behind the Olive Garden. Grayson also worked at the restaurant.

    Under the plea agreement, state District Judge Don Johnson ordered Young to life in prison without probation, parole or suspension of sentence. Moments before his sentence was handed down, Young turned and apologized to Arnold's parents, Bobby and Terry Arnold.

    "I'm very sorry for the loss of your son. If I could trade places with him I would," Young said.

    http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pb...=2011103270366

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