Grand jury declines indictment in deadly downtown fight
By KTBS Web Staff
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SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — The death of a man following a fight in downtown Shreveport in January has been resolved with the Caddo Parish grand jury declining to hand up an indictment Friday. Discovery in the case revealed there was insufficient evidence to try the man arrested in connection with the death and that self-defense could not be discounted. Trevor Moses, 26, was identified by a witness as a suspect in the Jan. 26 assault on Christopher J. Temple, 43, of Webster Parish. Temple was struck in the face in the 400 block of Commerce Street following an early morning altercation. He fell and the back of his head hit the concrete. Temple was taken to Ochsner LSU Health hospital for surgery and then was sent to The Carpenter’s House Hospice, where he died Feb. 15. He was Shreveport’s fifth homicide for the year.
Surveillance footage from the Real-Time Crime Center corroborated the witness’s account but did not show Moses delivering the actual blow that knocked Temple down. Moses was initially charged on a warrant for second-degree battery and surrendered to authorities Feb. 10. Discovery included surveillance video showing the victim striking Moses several times outside a nearby bar prior to the fatal encounter, as well as 14,000 pages of Temple’s medical records that revealed he still had a blood-alcohol level of .205% two days after the incident. Investigation also determined the two men did not know one another and had not met prior to their fight.
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