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A LaPlace homeowner fatally shot a man who broke into his house on Tuesday night, authorities said.
Kalvin Ferrygood, a 27-year-old man from Garyville, died at a hospital in New Orleans after he was shot in the abdomen while barging into a home in the 3000 block of Cambridge Drive, the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
According to Sheriff Mike Tregre, the homeowner — whose name wasn't released — heard voices in his backyard and opened his rear door about 8 p.m. Ferrygood then entered the house, and the homeowner gunned him down with a .40-caliber pistol in self-defense, Tregre said.
Sheriff's Office deputies and local firefighters gave first aid to Ferrygood, and paramedics then took him to a hospital in the city for treatment. However, he was pronounced dead after arriving, the Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies did not arrest the homeowner after taking statements from him and another witness as well as reviewing physical and video evidence, the Sheriff's Office said. The Sheriff's Office did not say whether the other witness also lived at the home.
Tregre said his investigators are trying to identify who else might have been speaking to the suspect before the shooting took place. They are also probing whether they can link Ferrygood to any other unsolved break-ins in the area, Tregre said.
Tregre said investigators would forward their case to local prosecutors and let them determine whether they agree with the decision to not arrest the homeowner.
In other crimes recently handled by local authorities:
• Brendel Deemer, a 49-year-old certified public account from New Orleans, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of intentionally filing a false tax return for herself. She was charged in June with filing a 2010 individual income tax return that excluded income from her CPA firm and inflated expenses pertaining to a daycare that she shut down after Hurricane Katrina, U.S. Attorney Duane Evans' office said Wednesday.
• Two men snuck up behind a 33-year-old man standing to his gold 2001 Buick Le Sabre, struck him in the back of the head, and stole his car about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 8200 block of Nelson Street in Hollygrove, New Orleans police said.
• New Orleans police on Wednesday released a surveillance camera image of a man they accuse of stealing a cell phone from Harrah's Casino on Aug. 28. They asked anyone who knows his identity to call police at 504-658-6080.
• New Orleans police on Wednesday said their Violent Offenders Warrant Squad booked suspects in battery, robbery and burglary cases.
Johnshane Powell, 27, was booked on counts of aggravated assault with a knife, theft, and simple battery following a Sept. 1 incident in the 8700 block of Green Street in the Leonidas neighborhood. Ralph Johnson, 23, was booked on counts of simple robbery and simple battery following an incident in the 2700 block of Jackson Avenue in Central City on Sept. 4.
And Merlin Burrell, 27, as well as Dandrae Frank, 30, were booked on counts of simple burglary in connection with an incident that occurred in the 6900 block of Virgilian Drive in New Orleans East Aug. 27.
• New Orleans police on Wednesday released surveillance camera photos of a woman they claim stole a purse from an establishment in the 400 block of Dauphine Street in the French Quarter on Sept. 7.
• New Orleans police on Wednesday said they are searching for a van that was stolen after briefly being left running by its owner in the 2600 block of Tulane Avenue in Mid-City on Sept. 11. Police described the van as a white 2004 Chevrolet Express 2500 with a Louisiana license plate reading YAA956.