Honk News (Baton Rouge, LA) – Last week, officials found the “mangled up” body of a man killed by his girlfriend’s teenage son on a busy Louisiana bridge. The family tried wrapping him in a blanket and dumping him over the side with a kettlebell.
According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office’s arrest affidavit, Baker’s Coshelia Conley, 36, was trying to cover up her boyfriend Gerard Nicholas Richard’s death last Thursday after her son, Da’Sean Conley, shot and killed him while they were arguing and fighting.
Following Conley and her son’s attempt to dump Richard’s body over the Huey P. Long Bridge in Jefferson Parish at 7 p.m., her mother, Cathy Conley, 55, was charged with principle to second-degree murder.
Police allege surveillance footage from Coshelia Conley’s apartment shows the trio “removing a trash bag believed to contain bloodied clothing items” 30 minutes before Richard’s death was found. Police allegedly found blood and bleach in the apartment and parking lot. A forensic analysis proved the interior was cleaned.
A witness told police they observed two vehicles stop at the bridge to dump Richard’s body and approached them. Police say the automobiles dropped Richard in the road and sped off, causing passing cars to drive over his body many times. Blood streaks on the bridge railing suggest Coshelia Conley and her family failed to dump him over.
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Authorities discovered Da’Sean argued with Richard last Thursday. The adolescent allegedly “punched and beaten” Richard before the incident spilled into the parking lot from the residence. The duo entered a Chevrolet Tahoe and witnesses heard a “single gunshot” police claim. Officials say the Conleys then destroyed evidence and dumped Richard’s body to cover up the murder.
Security footage purportedly shows Richard’s Tahoe going with a 2011 GMC 1500 pickup with a red gas can in the bed near the Huey P. Long bridge. Detectives instantly noticed the gas can in the back of Coshelia Conley’s GMC pickup when she drove it to be questioned about the case.
Da’Sean Conley is charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice, while Coshelia is accused with accessory after the fact. Cathy Conley was charged with obstruction and second-degree murder.