‘Stone-cold killer’ who gunned down Army Reservist outside New Orleans hotel gets life

A grieving family lashed out in court Friday at the man convicted of stalking and killing U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Frederick Douglas Magee Jr. two years ago outside a Warehouse District hotel.

“You stole a good child from us,” Jacqueline Burns told Jeremiah Williams, the man found guilty of murdering her grandson. “We raised him. He had a village behind him.”

Criminal District Judge Marcus DeLarge sentenced Williams, 26, to mandatory life with no possibility of parole for second-degree murder. Afterward, he told Williams, “if I could, I would give you more…

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