A St. Landry Parish grand jury has issued new indictments in the April 2022 slayings of a four-year-old child and an Opelousas man.

Three people were indicted that year in connection with the shooting deaths, as well as the wounding of three other children in the incident: Davieontray Breaux, Felton Martin James and Holly Roberts were each indicted on two counts first-degree murder and three counts attempted first-degree murder.

But after the District Attorney Chad Pitre said he planned to seek the death penalty, Breaux's attorneys appealed, saying the capital case should be separated from the attempted murder charges. Appeals courts agreed, and vacated the indictment.

This week, Pitre obtained two new indictments against Breaux: one accusing him of two counts first-degree murder in the

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