Acquitted Shavers’ defendant charged with attempted murder
Man booked in attempted murder
Bonds back in court after April acquittal
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
By Gwen Filosa
David Bonds, the 19-year-old acquitted in the slaying of musician Dinerral Shavers, now is charged with attempted murder in a shooting that took place 24 days after an Orleans Parish jury freed him.
Bonds remains in jail in lieu of $750,000 bail. He was scheduled to appear in magistrate court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing that his public defenders requested. But prosecutors filed a charge of attempted second-degree murder against Bonds, sending the case to trial in one of the 12 sections of Criminal District Court.
Bonds is accused of shooting a 25-year-old man in the 700 block of Canal Street at dawn on May 4. Police said Bonds got into an argument with another man about 5 a.m. at Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue and that Bonds shot the man in the torso.
Attempted murder carries a penalty of up to 50 years in prison upon conviction. The case hasn’t yet been allotted to a judge.
Bonds turned 19 three days after the Canal Street shooting, and returned to police custody May 16 after police located him in Thibodaux.
Two people saw the shooting, according to a police news release.
After an emotional trial, Bonds was acquitted April 10 of murdering Hot 8 Brass Band drummer Dinerral Shavers. Bonds was accused of shooting into Shavers’ car as he drove away from a heated confrontation between the musician’s stepson and a friend and other teenagers on Dumaine Street.
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