Chasity Weed testified Tuesday that her daughter Heaven told people she worked with shortly before a deadly March 2, 2023, incident that her new boyfriend must have “something wrong with him, because he seemed too perfect.”
She shared that memory on the first day of the second-degree murder trial of Brandon W. Lindsey, now 36, arrested following the discovery of Heaven Weed, 23, wrapped in a sheet on her bed with “bruises all over the top half of her body” according to police reports and blood spread around the duplex where she lived — and he was staying — in the 2400 block of Highland Avenue.
Weed’s mother testified she drove to the duplex after being unable to contact her daughter and encountered Lindsey, whom she thought also had just arrived. Her daughter’s boyfriend of a month helped her carry the victim to the mother’s vehicle, and she drove her daughter to Ochsner LSU Health, where she was sedated with brain swelling but never recovered…