Shreveport Man Found Guilty of Murder During Domestic Dispute

A man who intervened in a domestic dispute in February 2022 using deadly force was found guilty Wednesday, December 4, 2022 in Caddo District Court.

The six-man, six-woman jury in District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr.'s court deliberated almost three hours before finding Archille Parrel Holmes Jr., 29, guilty as charged in the February 16, 2022 slaying of Tomel T. Henry outside a residence in the 5200 block of Mansfield Road.

On February 16, 2022, Henry, 30, confronted the mother of his child, who resided in the Mansfield Road residence. The argument between the former intimate partners escalated into a shoving match. Holmes, who was not involved in the dispute, shot Henry in the head, then fled with the murder weapon and eluded authorities for two months, before he was apprehended and arrested by Shreveport police.

At trial, prosecutors called 12 witnesses, five of whom testified that the lethal force used by Holmes was excessive and unnecessary. Holmes declined to speak with detectives following his arrest and did not testify at the trial. His attorneys argued that another man had fired the fatal shot and also fled the scene, an argument rejected by the jury.

Holmes will return to Judge Hathaway's court December 19, 2024, where he faces a mandatory mandatory life sentence without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence.

Assistant District Attorneys Jason Waltman and Stephen Folk-Cruthirds prosecuted Holmes. Katherine Ferguson and Evan McMichael defended him.

The case was docket No. 388519.