“I think just the drugs took over,” Mincks said.Ĭhastant and Mincks said Dakota Theriot had just met Summer Ernest about three weeks ago at Chastant’s sister’s funeral.
Mincks and Chastant said at one point Dakota Theriot pulled a gun on his mother who called Chastant for help. They’d laugh and joke and tell each other “I love you.” But even that relationship had problems. Minks said Dakota Theriot and his mother seemed much closer. She and Chastant described an incident in which Chastant had to pull Dakota Theriot off his parents during a physical altercation. Just a happy couple,” she said.īut the relationship between Dakota Theriot and his parents, especially his father, was troubled. Keith Theriot had four children, all boys, they said. Keith Theriot was a disabled veteran who played a wicked guitar, and Elizabeth Theriot worked at a nearby Dollar General Store, they said. Mincks said she’d known Keith and Elizabeth Theriot for about two years and described them as wonderful people. Mincks and Chastant only returned to the trailer Sunday morning, worried Dakota Theriot might come back. According to Webre, officials got a “dying declaration from him, and only enough information to let us know that it was his son that committed this act.” Ard said Summer Ernest and Dakota Theriot were in a relationship and that Theriot had been living with her family for a few weeks.Īuthorities said earlier that Keith Theriot survived the shooting long enough to let them know who shot him. Theriot will be brought back to Ascension Parish to be booked on two counts of first-degree murder, home invasion, and illegal use of weapons, said a statement by Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre and Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.Īuthorities have identified the victims in Livingston Parish as Billy Ernest, 43 Tanner Ernest, 17 and Summer Ernest, 20. He did have a violent streak,” Mincks said. He got kicked out last Monday because of the drug problem. Mincks and Chastant said Dakota Theriot had struggled with drugs over the years, had violent outbursts, and had recently been kicked out of the trailer.
‘Get up, get dressed and walk outside,’ ” she recalled them saying. “They said something terrible happened here. Law enforcement officers came into her room Saturday morning and woke her. Mincks said she was in the house at the opposite end of the trailer when the shooting happened but added she didn’t hear anything. Kim Mincks and Jacob Chastant also lived in the trailer and were friends with the Theriots. Dozens of stuffed animals decorated the room. In the bedroom, blood-soaked pillows were strewn on a bed, and patches of what appeared to be dried blood were on the floor. In Louisiana, at a trailer where the suspect’s parents lived, drops of blood trailed out to the front steps from the bedroom where Keith and Elizabeth Theriot were shot. Smith said the pickup Theriot drove apparently was the one taken in Louisiana. A sheriff’s statement said deputies sought cover and challenged Theriot, who then dropped the gun and was arrested without incident. While deputies were there, Smith said, Theriot drove up with a firearm pointed out the window of a pickup. The woman asked authorities to check her house Sunday morning to ensure it was safe before she returned. Theriot’s grandmother in Warsaw, Virginia, had checked into a hotel Saturday night, fearing he might show up there, Richmond County Sheriff Stephan B.
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