A New Orleans man has been arrested in Mississippi in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred earlier this month on Lakeshore Drive.
On Monday, David Griffin Jr., 45, was arrested by U.S. Marshals and deputies from the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama and the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Griffin was booked in Mississippi and will be extradited to New Orleans to face a second-degree murder charge, police said.
Detectives obtained a warrant for Griffin’s arrest in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred in the evening of Oct. 5, in the 2000 block of Lakeshore Drive, not far from LSU New Orleans. There, officers found 37-year-old Brandon Wheeler suffering from multiple sharp-and blunt-force injuries…