On Monday the Louisiana authorities accused a second suspicion of murder in the death of a television journalist who had traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl.
Adan Manzano, 27 -year -old reporter and again for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead on February 5 in his hotel room in the suburb of New Orleans in Kenner. A woman seen on the security video that left Manzano’s room was subsequently accused of second degree murder and of having stolen her credit cards and mobile phone.
The Kenner police announced on Monday that an accomplice, the 34 -year -old Rickey White, was also accused of second degree murder. White was arrested in Florida in March for accusations of robbery and fraud linked to the death of Manzano, then extracts in Louisiana.
The Kenner police declared in a press release that the charge of murder against White is derived from “continuous investigative efforts”, but officials did not provide further details.
Kenner Kenner police chief Keith Conley said in a press conference on March 18 that investigators had connected White to Dantette Colbert, the first suspicion accused in case, based on “correspondence and information in which they were going back and forth. So we think they were working by hand in concert with each other”.
A White lawyer, Kevin Boshea, said he was not informed of the murder accusation before a journalist from the Associated Press called him on Monday.
“I don’t think it is guilty of the other crimes,” said Boshea, “So how can it be guilty of murder?”
Boshea said he pushed the police during a preliminary hearing on the robbery and the accusations of fraud last month to show evidence that White was in the New Orleans area when Manzano died, but they had no one.
A lawyer from Colbert said that the police were making “hypotheses and hypotheses” to connect it to Manzano’s death.
According to the Louisiana law, a defendant can be accused of second degree murder for the distribution of drugs that cause a death or for having committed some crimes, including robbery, which translate into someone who died.
An autopsy discovered that Manzano died face down on a pillow and unable to breathe after ingesting a combination of alcohol and depressive Xanax, the coroner of the parish of Jefferson Gerry Cvitanovich in March told journalists.
The police said that the security videos of the Hotel in Manzano showed him and Colbert entered his room together on the day of his death. Filming showed that Colbert left without him about an hour later. The authorities said Colbert later used Manzano’s credit card to make a purchase in a New Orleans service station and in several shops in the area.
The police also stated that Manzano’s clinical folders did not show prescriptions for Xanax or other depressive and that they recovered the drug from Colbert’s house.