NEW ORLEANS — A juvenile and adult were arrested Tuesday for carjacking of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams.
NOPD says they arrested 18-year-old Ahmad Seals and a 16-year-old juvenile male. Seals was arrested on three counts of principle to armed robbery. The 16-year-old was arrested on three counts of armed robbery with a firearm and one count of juvenile in illegal possession of a firearm and for possessing a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence.
Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint last Monday while he helped her to her car. It happened around 10:00 p.m. in the 1000 block of Race Street in the Lower Garden District.
Williams told police that at least three people were involved in taking his car.
The day after the carjacking, 18-year-old Raymond Rochon and a juvenile considered an affiliated and/or an accomplice were arrested for the incident.
On audio obtained by WWL-TV, you can hear Williams imploring the carjackers to let him get his mother out of the vehicle before they took off. He and his mother were not injured.
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