Ferriday man shot to death

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, August 17, 2004

FERRIDAY &045; A streak of four unrelated but violent crimes last week culminated Tuesday morning with just what Ferriday authorities feared &045; a death.

Kendrick Hill, 17, was found shot to death just after 6:30 a.m. in a Second Street house.

Hill, found lying in the bathroom, was shot once to the left temple lobe, FPD Chief Investigator Richard Madison said.

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Rendrell Goings, 23, is in police custody in connection with the shooting.

Madison said Goings and Hill knew each other and had been together earlier in the morning.

&uot;We know the subjects had been dropped off at the residence at 6 a.m.,&uot; Madison said. &uot;But we haven’t been able to determine a motive at this time.&uot;

FPD is also still searching for the weapon.

Hill was transported from the 216 Second St. house to Riverland Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The investigation is ongoing and the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office is assisting.

Goings was booked into the CPSO jail Tuesday on a charge of second-degree murder.

He was later transferred to the Concordia Parish Correctional Facility.

The Tuesday shooting follows, but is not related to, three shootings and one stabbing that occurred in about 72 hours time last week. None of the crimes were connected.

The first incident was the stabbing on June 26. The victim, Robert Franklin was stabbed in the upper left side of his chest, but survived.

Two shootings on First Street and one at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. followed. No one was injured in the shootings.

Arrests have been made in all but one of last week’s incidents. In all cases the victim and the suspect knew each other.

Madison said last week’s events had the department on edge, since all four could have easily been fatalities. FPD publicized heavy patrols and beefed up staffing over the Fourth of July weekend, in hopes of preventing more violent crimes.

&uot;We talked about death,&uot; he said. &uot;But we didn’t have any more problems until the morning of the 5th. One of the things I feared the most was that this was going to happen. And it happened.&uot;

The department will continue its normal patrols and do what they always do, Madison said.

&uot;This is not something we expect to repeat itself. It’s already happened.&uot;