DA aims to revoke bond for Istrouma student previously arrested on gun charges
Apr 27, 2026
BATON ROUGE mdash; District Attorney Hillar Moore wants to have an Istrouma High School student, who was previously arrested after a gun went off during class, put back in jail in East Baton Rouge.According to court documents, the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney's Office filed a motion on
Monday to have 18-year-old Marcus Washington's bond revoked.nbsp;Washington was originally arrested in February when a gun went off during a class he was in, the bullet sailing over a student's head and hitting the ceiling, documents show. He was ordered a $50,000 bond and required to wear a GPS ankle monitor.Documents show that Washington charged the ankle monitor only for 7 of the 31 days he wore it, despite being told to charge it every day.The device would only officially lose power once during that time period, but still, a judge switched him to a phone-based location-monitoring device during an April court hearing.nbsp;Days after that hearing, Martha Odom, 17, was killed, and five people were injured in a shooting at the Mall of Louisiana.nbsp; Investigators say they began looking into whether Washington was involved due to tips they received.nbsp;A representative with Magnolia Monitoring told the DA's office that Washington had been in Greenwell Springs all day Thursday, but he turned his GPS monitoring off around 12:30 p.m.Following the shooting, authorities quickly tracked down Washington in Livingston Parish, where he was arrested for allegedly having a gun, drugs, and other violations of his bond. He denied being at the mall and any involvement in the mass shooting, and a preliminary examination of his phone backs up his claims, according to court records.nbsp;On Monday, in addition to requesting his bond be revoked, Moore filed a subpoena to request more extensive records from Magnolia Monitoring to more accurately determine where he was during the shooting.nbsp;Authorities are still examining Washington's phone for more evidence of other bond violations.nbsp;Washington is currently being held in Livingston Parish for drug, gun and other charges stemming from Thursday's arrest. His bond in Livingston is pending.nbsp;Permalink| Comments
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