Justice for Selonia Reed remains elusive
On Mother’s Day, the bondsman got Reginald Reed out of the Tangipahoa Parish Prison and drove him to the Winn Dixie in Amite. Due to restrictions imposed during the pandemic, the sheriff’s office allowed only bondsmen in and out of the prison. The agent told me later that she was unaware of the evidence against the man or the rape charges filed against him in an unrelated case.
Unsolved murders need not remain that way
Two contrasting events occurred last week. A mother made a public plea to the residents of South Louisiana for help exposing the person or person who killed her son in March 2021—while in Central Louisiana, a former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy rallied the public to help police resolve the murder of a teenage girl from 2004.