{"id":60850,"date":"2025-12-12T21:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/new-orleans-jail-escapee-who-was-on-the-run-for-5-months-is-sentenced-to-life-for-double-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:51:40","slug":"new-orleans-jail-escapee-who-was-on-the-run-for-5-months-is-sentenced-to-life-for-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/new-orleans-jail-escapee-who-was-on-the-run-for-5-months-is-sentenced-to-life-for-double-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans jail escapee who was on the run for 5 months is sentenced to life for double murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The last inmate caught after an audacious New Orleans jailbreak was sentenced Friday to two life sentences over a 2018 double murder, with the Louisiana judge rebuking him for the disruption caused by <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/how-new-orleans-inmate-derrick-groves-captured-after-5-months-marshals\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">his five months on the run<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/escaped-new-orleans-inmate-derrick-groves-waives-extradition-hearing-after-atlanta-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Derrick Groves<\/a><\/span>, 28, wore shackles and an orange jumpsuit in a New Orleans courtroom, two months after investigators tracked him down and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/neighbors-describe-chaotic-scene-as-escaped-new-orleans-inmate-derrick-groves-captured-in-atlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">captured him beneath a house in Atlanta<\/a><\/span>. Groves and nine other inmates <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-orleans-sheriff-says-brazen-jailbreak-was-culmination-of-perfect-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">escaped in May<\/a><\/span> by <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-orleans-jail-inmate-escape-armed-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">crawling through a hole behind a jail toilet<\/a><\/span>, leaving behind graffiti that read &#8220;To Easy LoL.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount\":50}\"=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/08\/c3f8e3a1-73f2-4531-8ed2-8ffb4f4738de\/thumbnail\/620x592\/2874ef367e658caea21c7373473d53df\/derrick-groves.jpg#\" alt=\"derrick-groves.jpg \" height=\"592\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/08\/c3f8e3a1-73f2-4531-8ed2-8ffb4f4738de\/thumbnail\/620x592\/2874ef367e658caea21c7373473d53df\/derrick-groves.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/08\/c3f8e3a1-73f2-4531-8ed2-8ffb4f4738de\/thumbnail\/1240x1184\/8670d441f07ee46168b6684f4415548b\/derrick-groves.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Derrick Groves was taken into custody after a standoff involving a SWAT team in southwest Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Courtesy of the Atlanta Police Department<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A jury last year convicted Groves of two counts of second-degree murder for killing Jamar Robinson and Byron Jackson in a shooting at a Mardi Gras party in 2018. He also pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in two fatal shootings in a separate case.<\/p>\n<p>Groves&#8217; escape caused &#8220;concern, disappointment, frustration and displeasure&#8221; to the court, said Orleans Parish Judge Dennis Waldron. The judge said the killings compounded tragedy already endured by Groves&#8217; family, noting that in 1994 a corrupt New Orleans police officer ordered the killing of his grandmother, Kim Groves, after she reported police misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He chose to not honor the memory of his grandmother as she lay in that street in the Ninth Ward, shot to death,&#8221; Waldron said. &#8220;He made that conscious decision to go the other way and to kill, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kadija Jackson, the sister of one of the victims, said she sends photos of him to his daughter so the girl can show friends she once had a father. Jackson recalled finding her brother dying inside a car after Groves fired an AK-style rifle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He lifted his head, but deep down, I knew he wasn&#8217;t going to make it,&#8221; she said, sobbing. &#8220;That moment shattered something inside me. Since that day my life has felt like it is missing a piece that it felt it could never replace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As she spoke, Groves smirked and nodded from the defense table, and later turned to stare at her and the other victims&#8217; supporters from across the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Freiberg, Groves&#8217; attorney, said his client maintains his innocence and plans to appeal his convictions, while expressing sympathy for the victims&#8217; families.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/12\/7a48872f-446f-4f13-b164-0d60b83780ea\/thumbnail\/620x401\/674e75dff226f1555471146503e72f7c\/ap25346612812296.jpg#\" alt=\"New-Orleans-Inmates Escape \" height=\"401\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/12\/7a48872f-446f-4f13-b164-0d60b83780ea\/thumbnail\/620x401\/674e75dff226f1555471146503e72f7c\/ap25346612812296.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/12\/7a48872f-446f-4f13-b164-0d60b83780ea\/thumbnail\/1240x802\/c7c9344dbaed201476c0e30b9cb52444\/ap25346612812296.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Derrick Groves sits in a police vehicle after being taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and Atlanta police at a southwest Atlanta home on Oct. 8, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Ben Hendren\/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The judge, however, said Groves showed no remorse and the city would be far safer with him imprisoned for life. In addition to the two life sentences, Groves was convicted of two counts of attempted murder for wounding others in the 2018 shooting. Waldron imposed two 50-year sentences for those convictions, stacked onto the life terms.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also referenced video of Groves smiling and blowing kisses while being led away after his capture in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is almost as if Mr. Groves thought he were a guest at a presidential motorcade as opposed to a captured fugitive, riding in a police SWAT convoy,&#8221; Waldron said. &#8220;These actions may be considered a final act of defiance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 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