LAPLACE, La. (WVUE) - A LaPlace man was arrested and booked with second-degree murder after deputies discovered a body in the trunk of his car during a traffic stop, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office.

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Tyler Bourgeois, 20, was arrested Saturday night, Sept. 27, shortly before 10 p.m. and is being held in the parish jail on a $250,000 bond set by Judge Vercell Fiffie.

Deputies said patrol officers responded around 9:35 p.m. to reports of gunfire in the 300 block of Railroad Avenue in Reserve. Witnesses reported seeing an orange, four-door Dodge sedan leaving the area after the shots were fired. At the scene, deputies found clothing and a shell casing.

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