Who is Derrick Groves, and why did a Judge sentence him to two life terms plus 100 years?
A New Orleans criminal court judge has sentenced Derrick Groves to two consecutive life sentences plus an additional 100 years in prison, bringing to a close one of the city’s most disturbing and long-delayed murder cases.
The sentencing stems from a 2018 Mardi Gras Day shooting in the Lower Ninth Ward that left two young men dead and two others injured, and was later compounded by Groves’ dramatic escape from the Orleans Parish jail…Read Original / Full Content