A New Orleans man who evaded U.S. Marshals for nearly four years after allegedly killing a woman in Central City was ordered held on a $2 million bond Tuesday, four months after his apprehension in a seaside California town.
New Orleans police say William Powell III, 43, shot Ciara Bullock, 35, in the head outside his residence in the early morning hours of March 19, 2022, leaving her to die on the sidewalk. He went into his shotgun house, changed clothes, jumped the back fence and kicked open a neighbor’s gate to flee, according to court documents.
That week was an especially violent stretch in a year when New Orleans became the nation’s murder capital. Twelve other people were killed in Orleans Parish during the week of Bullock’s slaying, according to the Metropolitan Crime Commission.
After surfacing briefly in Jackson, Mississippi, Powell evaded authorities for years, according to U.S. Marshals. The agency upgraded Powell to a major case, and last fall NOPD named him one of their most-wanted murder suspects…