NEW ORLEANS — The man described as one of the most violent offenders in New Orleans by District Attorney Jason Williams, has been found guilty of four out of five murders he was being tried for.
An Orleans Parish jury found Tyrone Steele, 20, guilty of four murders Thursday, including the triple homicide inside an apartment on Encampment Street in the Gentilly area in 2022.
Amya Cornin, Darrin Williams and Nehemiah Jones were killed.
The jury found Steele not guilty of the murder of Donald McNeil, who was shot in the back of the head and body was left to rot in an abandoned 7th Ward home, Nola.com reported.
Back in 2022, Steele was indicted for the murder of Shane Brown, our partners reported. He faced a murder charge on Mar. 21 when NOPD found a body in the beginning stages of decomposition in the 4200 block of Hamburg Street.
Police said the incident was initially considered an unclassified death but after an autopsy, it changed to a black male who died of a gunshot wound.
Steele was arrested days later on Mar. 30 and was held in the Orleans Parish Justice Center. Along with the four murder charges, he faces charges for two additional homicide cases.
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