LAFAYETTE, La. ( KLFY ) – The Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld the Second Degree Murder conviction and sentence of life at hard labor for Zachary Adam s. Adams was convicted for the March 2022 murder of Jalen Walker in Lafayette .
Mother gets justice in son’s murder case, killer sentenced to life in prison
Walker’s mother, Marcel Hoskins, testified at the defendant’s sentencing hearing on March 13, 2024, told District Judge Michele Billeaud that, “Adams had not only taken her son from her by shooting him, but also away from the victim’s three young children, and that he deserved to spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
Hoskins said that her son was studying to become a chef, and once he had a restaurant, he wanted to provide food for the homeless in the Lafayette area.
Adams was a convicted felon, having been previously convicted of Second Degree Battery related to a 2001 homicide, and of Battery of a Correctional Facility Officer in 2003.
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