He had something to tell the police about the shooting. Tammany Sheriff's office with his pastor beside him. Then, a ray of hope: Days after Mac's arrest, a man named Thomas Williams walked into the St. A month after that, he finally got a bail hearing, where his bail was denied.
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Mac was arrested that night, but sat in jail for a month before being charged with second degree murder. "So everybody in Slidell is just gonna bum rap you, huh? They just going to pick you out because you're a superstar and say, 'Mac's the one that shot this dude?'" "Somebody got murdered, man," one of the detectives says. "When I was in that club, I did not have a gun." "I'm telling you the honest truth," Mac says. "You need to tell us the truth," one of the detectives says.
"Nah, a witness couldn't put a gun in my hand," you can hear him say on a recording of the interview. Even though his gun was registered, Mac, who knows that carrying a concealed weapon in a club is illegal in Louisiana, denies it. The two detectives who questioned him asked about one of his nicknames, The Camouflage Assassin, and told him that they had witnesses who put him at the scene with a gun in his hand. Tammany Parish sheriff's office, Mac agreed to an interrogation without a lawyer present. Police searched the house, took guns belonging to Mac and his father, who was a Vietnam vet, and handcuffed Mac.Īt the time, Mac thought, "'I'm gonna go down here - they're going to question me, they're going to run checks on my hands and then they're going to let me go."Īt the St. had died from a single gunshot wound that went through his arm and struck his heart. "I told him, I said, 'Wasn't nobody dead when I left."īut the shooting victim that Mac's father saw lying on the ground - a 19-year-old man named Barron Victor, Jr.
The police told him that Mac was wanted for murder. "I had like four policemen - three with pistols, one with a shotgun - come charging and running at me, telling me, 'Get on the ground, get on the ground, get on the ground,'" Mac's father says.
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When they arrived at the house soon after, the police were in full force. Tammany saying he's wanted in connection with the shooting in the club. After they arrived home, in the wee hours of the morning, Mac got a phone call from detectives in St. The family piled into two cars and drove the 90 miles back home to Baton Rouge. Mac Senior recalls that when he asked whether the man was hurt, she said he was okay but had been shot in the arm. The woman, a first-year nursing student named Yulon James, began administering CPR on the spot. On their way out of the club, Chad and Mac's father, noticed a man on the ground with a woman standing over him. When he got to the exit, Chad didn't see his brother, who had stayed in the club to find their parents. "Once people started running toward the exit, I was like, 'Oh, that must have been a gunshot.'" had it pointed at the ceiling and he was kinda ducking," Chad says. When Chad looked up, he saw what several other people in the club would later say they saw: Mac holding a gun. "I guess part of my brain was trying to process whether this pop was on the song or whether it was from a gunshot, but to take precautionary measures, I got low and looked around," he said. In an interview years later, Mac described the confusion of the scene that followed.
Now, I'm still holding off two guys from fighting each other as my brother's walking up over my shoulder to see what was going on, and the next thing you know, it was like, a POW!" "So he started walking up and I can see him walking up over my shoulder. "My brother, at some point, saw me in the middle of this ruckus that looked like it was about to happen," Chad says. The crowd at Club Mercedes that night was rowdy, and soon a fight broke out on the floor. Mac was charged and convicted of manslaughter in the case, though he has maintained his innocence. on February 20, 2000, the night of Barron Victor, Jr.'s shooting. Mac (center) at Club Mercedes in Slidell, La.
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