Involuntary Accomplice: LSU Running Back Lindsey in Legal Quagmire
First-year LSU running back JT Lindsey has been temporarily estraced from the football team as he grapples with legal charges, disclosed his legal counsel to The Advocate this past weekend. The burgeoning athlete faces an accessory after the fact to second-degree murder charges, subsequent to authorities implicating him in indirectly assisting two suspects for a murder in Alexandria, situated in Louisiana.
Reportedly, from the end of the previous month, Lindsey is alleged to have offered residential facilities to the two individuals tangled in this fatal matter. His alleged conduct centres around offering his dorm room as a refuge to these characters, which has put him under scrutiny.
The predicament worsened for Lindsey when he surrendered himself to the authorities last Friday, subsequent to the police department linked to his university, LSU, issuing a warrant for his detainment. His representative, Kris Perret, is echoing the standpoint that Lindsey was oblivious to the criminal status of the two adolescent fugitives who were utilizing his haven.
According to Perret, Lindsey was unaware that the two individuals were implicated in a serious crime, let alone an act as severe as murder. Lindsey’s attorney stands firm on the fact that if Lindsey had knowledge about their notoriety, he wouldn’t have allowed them to cohabitate with him prior to their apprehension this Monday.
In the eyes of legal authorities, however, Lindsey isn’t being viewed as an active participant in the alleged criminal act. Interestingly enough, he is under scrutiny due to the repeated comings and goings of the suspects from his dorm room, which was documented in the submitted affidavit.
The individuals in question are a duo of teenagers, Shemell Jacobs, aged 17, and Keldrick Jordan, slightly older at 18. The Alexandria Police Department had been trailing the youngsters as they had been implicated in the fatal shooting incident of a fellow teen, Corey Brooks, who was also 17, since the month of May.
The duo of Jacobs and Jordan found themselves in handcuffs at LSU’s Nicholson Gateway Apartments last Monday. An interesting revelation was unearthed by the US Marshals during the arrest, which brought Lindsey into the ambit of the investigation. They discovered that Jacobs was in possession of Lindsey’s identification card, stressing upon Lindsey’s connection to the alleged culprits in a more direct fashion than was previously presumed.