LSU Player Turns Himself In For Charges He Housed 2 Youths Wanted On Murder Charges

GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor

LSU running back JT Lindsey turned himself in to LSU Police on Friday afternoon and was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison after 4 p.m. on felony charges of accessory to murder, according to Chris Nakamoto of WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge.

Lindsey, a freshman signee from Alexandria Senior High in Alexandria, was released on bond later Friday and has been indefinitely suspended from the football team. Lindsey allegedly let two friends wanted for murder in Alexandria – Shernell Jackson, 17, and Keldrick Jordan, 18, of Alexandria – stay in his LSU apartment in July at the Nicholson Gateway Apartments, which are operated as a dormitory mainly for athletes by LSU.

The arrest warrant for Lindsey says he knew that Jackson and Jordan were wanted for murder by police. Then on Monday, Aug. 4, U.S. Marshalls Service agents arrested Jackson and Jordan in Baton Rouge on second-degree murder charges, involving the shooting death of Corey Brooks, 17, in Alexandria last May 21.

The warrant for Lindsey’s arrest says investigators “interviewed an associate of Lindsey, who advised that Lindsey has told the associate, prior to their apprehension, that Jacobs and Jordan were wanted for murder.”

The warrant, signed on August 6 by District Judge Brad Myers in Baton Rouge, alleges Lindsey “knowingly harbored and aided Jacobs and Jordan.”

A WAFB source said that the U.S. Marshalls found found multiple assault weapons in the apartment, including two AR-15 rifles and a Draco and a Glock, which are semi-automatic pistols.

But Lindsey’s attorney, Kris Perret of Baton Rouge, told Nakamoto that Lindsey did not know that Jackson and Jordan were wanted for murder at the time they stayed with Lindsey in his apartment/dormitory.

“We are cooperating with LSU Police,” Perret told WAFB. “My client maintains he is fully innocent of all charges and any wrongdoing. We hope to get this straightened out pretty quick. And that’s all we have to say at this point. We will have more later.”

Lindsey, accompanied by Perret, turned himself into LSU Police on Friday upon knowledge of the warrant being issued for his arrest.

“We are aware of it (Lindsey’s arrest) and won’t have any comment,” LSU football sports information director Michael Bonnette said Friday.

“Let me be clear, anyone found protecting or harboring these violent individuals will be held accountable and arrested,” Alexandria Police Chief Chad Gremillion said last May.

Lindsey had been practicing with the Tigers since July 30 when pre-season camp opened.

The No. 7 running back in the nation for the Class of 2025 by 247sports.com, Lindsey was considered the Tigers fourth or fifth string running back going into his first season with the Tigers.