Suspect in Farmer's Market Murder Arrested

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Louisiana
Oct 31, 2007

Within 30 minutes of surveillance video airing on television newscasts, Baton Rouge police say they got the tips they needed to make an arrest in Wednesday's murder of an elderly security guard.

The murder happened at Pete's Farmer's Market on Airline Highway. Derrick Williams, 25, was charged with First Degree Murder and Armed Robbery....
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The gunman was never able to open the cash registers, which were actually empty. The murder happened just before 5am, when the market was closed.
SECURITY GUARD ALFRED MEQUET
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"Literally within a half an hour of that video airing on television, our phones were ringing off the hook," said police spokesman Sergeant Don Kelly. "We had tips coming in from throughout the community," Kelly said….

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