Two Men Arraigned On Murder Charges

Two Orange men were arraigned on murder charges Saturday in a West End shooting. Twenty-year-old Armani Rashad Wallace and 18-year-old Jaren Battles are in the Jefferson County Correctional Center. Beaumont police were on scene answering a trespassing complaint of people parking in the West End Crossing apartments and walking over to the DMoney Daiquiris Lounge at 6632 Phelan. While on scene gunshots were fired in the parking lot of the club. A Mercedes party van was stopped nearby carrying 14 people and several guns were found. Near the Burger King on Phelan police found the body of 30-year-old Geraldo Escamilla of Beaumont in a pickup along with a wounded driver. The truck had been hit with multiple rounds and the driver was shot in the leg.


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