From left to right: JaQuarius Givens, Errigan Rainwater, and John Rabun have been arrested in connection with a triple homicide in Bastrop on Wednesday night.
More details are now available regarding the triple homicide in Bastrop that took the lives of three teens on Wednesday night. After receiving multiple 9-1-1 calls about shots fired, Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s deputies mobilized. Chief Deputy Jeremy Mardis says a retired reserve deputy was the first to reach the scene.
“We had a retired reserve deputy happen to be driving through at that time, and he heard the shots, turned the corner from Montgomery Avenue onto Bentley Street, and found three young men laying in the street,” said Mardis.
Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the third died from his injuries at Morehouse General Hospital. Authorities were able to locate a fourth victim who escaped unharmed. Mardis says that the young man laid out the horrible sequence of events for law enforcement…
“Come to find out there were four young men walking together, turned the corner…they kind of got separated when they separated by maybe 25 yards they were shot ambush-style,” he said.
Based on witness statements and surveillance video from the area, sheriffs identified 18-year-old Errigan Rainwater and Jaquarius Givens as suspects. Under questioning, both admitted to firing the fatal shots into the victims. A third suspect, 38-year-old John Rabun, was also arrested. Mardis says the Bastrop community has been rocked by the tragedy.
“You’re talking about two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old,” Mardis said of the victims. “The 18-year-old graduated from high school last month and is dead a month later. It’s that type of thing. It’s just the shock and the outrage.”
Rainwater and Givens have been charged with three counts of First Degree Murder and Attempted First Degree Murder. Rabun was charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly removing shell casings from the crime scene.
Mardis says there appears to be no connection to drugs or gangs in the case. They believe it was an argument that escalated into tragic violence.
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