LSU Police Department officers made an arrest Monday morning in the 2007 double homicide at Edward Gay Apartments, according to an LSUPD news release.
Casey Jermaine Gathers, 23, of 6420 Buckeye Drive, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder. The release said a grand jury indicted Gathers on July 21, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Gathers turned himself in without incident, according to the release.
Gathers was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish jail at 9 a.m., according to Capt. Cory Lalonde, LSUPD spokesman.
Gathers is one of three suspects to be charged in the killing of two University graduate students, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma, 31, and Kiran Kumar Allam, 33.
A Nextel cell phone and $120 were taken from the two graduate students.
Komma and Allam were found shot in the head, and one was bound.
Prior to the July 21 indictment, Gathers was released by a grand jury due to a “lack of physical evidence” in September 2009.
“I am unable to say what new evidence we have. But there was new evidence that came to light and [was] brought to the grand jury,” Lalonde said.
Gathers and two other Baton Rouge men — Devin Parker and Michael Lewis — were arrested and booked on May 22, 2008.
Parker was indicted four months later.
On June 27, Parker plead guilty to armed robbery and accessory to second-degree murder, Lalonde said.
He is scheduled to be sentenced September 27, Lalonde said.
Lewis is currently incarcerated in an East Baton Rouge Parish jail for the February death of 14-year-old Christopher Williams, according to The Advocate.
He is additionally charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the double homicide, Lalonde said.
“This is still an active investigation,” Lalonde said.
 
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