A Mississippi man has been indicted on murder charges in the 2016 killing of a 35-year-old man in the 7th ward.
Drew Bourgeois, 30, also known by his nickname “Creep” was indicted Thursday (Feb. 14) on charges of obstruction of justice in a homicide investigation and with the second-degree murder of Matthew “Twig” Spooner.
Bourgeois, of Bay St. Louis, faces a mandatory lifetime prison sentence if convicted of murder. He is currently incarcerated at the Wynn Correctional Center, where he is serving a 10-year sentence for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.
Bourgeois was arrested by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies inside an Old Jefferson hotel room on July 14, 2016 where he was hiding out with a gun, drugs and his girlfriend, according to District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office.
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He was arrested eight days after Spooner was found dead after being shot in the head inside the kitchen of his home in the 2000 block of N. Miro Street. Bourgeois has also been indicted for the murder of Spooner’s friend Jeremy Fountain, whose body was found five days later on July 11, 2016 in a wooded area near Shoreland Park in Waveland, Miss.
Hancock County (Miss.) Coroner’s office said that Fountain had been dead for several days.
Investigators in Mississippi said at the time that they believed the two killings were connected and may have occurred on the same day. Bourgeois was arrested for Fountain’s murder, but was not initially named a suspect in Spooner’s killing.
Both victims were connected to Bourgeois and both had been killed by gunshots to the head, according to Cannizzaro’s office.
Spooner was a father of three young children, ages 11, 9 and 3 at the time of his death.