“They made it seem that he was targeting homeless people, but these people had become self-sufficient on their own,” O’Bryan said. Reports began to surface that Dominique was targeting the homeless, residents of the place where he was apprehended. We walk him through the back area, they put him in the back of the car and take off.”Ĭamera crews descended upon the Bunk House, a tangible place in a case of unknowns. “They start talking to him and they then ask him to come. “Dominique is standing up, and when he sees the two detectives, he just puts his head down, kind of like ‘I knew’ or ‘What took you so long?’” O’Bryan said. He joined Foret and Dennis Thornton, a detective with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and member of the task force, as they knocked on Dominique’s door. Thirty-eight hours after Dominique was officially checked into the Bunk House, the task force contacted O’Bryan and informed him that it was time to apprehend Dominique. The Bunk House director said three of Dominique’s victims spent some time at the shelter, which added to the mystique that shrouded the brick building days after the arrest. He didn’t know it at the time, but O’Bryan placed Dominique in the same room in which Michael Barnett, one of his victims, had stayed four years earlier. “We weren’t running around high-fiving each other, but we knew that we could arrest him on the murders on the DNA,” Foret said. The task force set up surveillance outside and O’Bryan and his wife watched from the video control room. It minimized Dominique’s chances to strike in the shelter and placed him in a room that was within range of a video camera. O’Bryan assigned Dominique a bed in a densely populated area on the backside of the first story. Coleman goes into begging mode so I was like, ‘OK, fine.’”
We don’t take a sexual offender, child molester, rapist or murderer in the Bunk House, and now you’re telling me I have one. Coleman asked us if we could provide him a room and keep him at the Bunk House. “At 8 a.m., has been put out on the street just like every other homeless person,” O’Bryan said.
Dana Coleman was waiting for him to request Dominique be placed in a long-term room. When O’Bryan arrived at the Bunk House on Thursday morning, HPD Sgt. After he spent the first night, Dominique, like all who are sheltered in the emergency beds, was told to leave at 8 a.m.
0 kommentar(er)
