Linda Frickey’s family feels justice was served after 18-year-old John Honore was found guilty of second-degree murder by a unanimous jury on Monday. Honore was the driver in the horrific New Orleans carjacking that killed Frickey. Her sister-in-law, Kathy Richard says the guilty verdict doesn’t bring Linda back but it brings closure.
“We feel we can put Linda to rest because as you asked before with the defense, it was more insulting. It was no type of just idiot kids they knew what they were doing.”
Surveillance video showed Honore pulling Frickey out of her vehicle in mid-city New Orleans in March of 2022 and beating her. The car sped away dragging Frickey and severing her arm in the brutal death. The defense argued that Honore did not intend to kill Frickey.
Richard says the murder was intentional. She says Honore could have made different choices.
“It was more insulting. He had several opportunities where he could have stopped. When he pulled her out of the car, instead of throwing her at his feet and stomping her he could have threw her to the side and left.”
Three other teens charged in the 2022 carjacking death pleaded guilty last week to attempted manslaughter in exchange for 20-year sentences.
Richard feels he should serve the maximum possible punishment of life in prison if convicted. She hopes the memory of that horrific day lives with him forever.
“I hope that where he’s going, he feels every emotion that Linda felt. I hope he feels the fear that she had in her heart that day. I hope he hears his own self screaming for mercy and it don’t come.”
Sentencing is set for January. Honore could possibly be up for parole in 25 years.
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