Posted on 03/26/2018 6:25:00 AM PDT by Lera
A Metairie man walked with a machete into a Kenner Walmart and used the weapon to try to kidnap a 2-year-old boy and then an infant, swinging the blade at store employees before he was tackled and arrested Friday (March 23), police said.
At one point, police said, Billy Yoe Budier-Herrera, 33, forced a mother to struggle for her child and to take refuge behind the store's deli counter, moments before store employees and an off-duty Kenner police officer working a detail subdued Budier-Herrera inside the Walmart Supercenter, at 8912 Veterans Blvd.
Budier-Herrera was booked with two counts of second-degree kidnapping of a child, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of illegal carrying of weapons and disturbing the peace, according to the Kenner Police Department.
Along with the 10-inch, machete-style blade, Budier-Herrera was found carrying a container of pepper spray and a makeshift shiv formed of a plastic handle with razor blades attached by duct tape, Kenner police said.
The havoc began about 2 p.m., when Budier-Herrera approached a woman inside and her 2-year-old son inside the store. Budier-Herrera, who wore a backpack, "told the mother that if she did not listen to his instructions, she would die," police said in a news release.
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How about attepted kidnapping and murder too?
Article says he was wearing a backpack, so weapon was likely concealed there.
From the description of that shiv, I'd hazard a guess that the perp has a prison record.
The article says he pulled it from his waste band.
Open carry is pretty common at my local Walmart.
As sung by Sylvester Stallone, YO! Billy Yoe.
Ah, OK. Water seeking its own level then. He really looks like a subset of the local population.
Lol.
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