(MAUREPAS)---A Hammond man who allegedly shot a Kentucky man three times after an incident near Maurepas has turned himself in to detectives this afternoon, according to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office.
Livingston Sheriff Willie Graves says that 44-year-old Jerome Jones, listed with an alias of Jerome Irvin, of 910 South Oak Street in Hammond, was wanted on a charge of attempted second degree murder in the multiple-shooting of 42-year-old Timothy M. Fraizer of Kentucky. The sheriff says that Jones, shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28, turned himself in to detectives and was charged with attempted second degree murder.
Sheriff Graves says that shortly after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27, deputies responded to a shooting incident at an abandoned trailer on LA 22 near Maurepas. When deputies arrived, they learned that Fraizer had apparently been shot three times and was taken by a private vehicle to a hospital. The sheriff says that Ascension Parish deputies intercepted the vehicle on LA 22 near the Amite River Diversion Canal and Fraizer was taken to a Baton Rouge hospital, where he is expected to recover from his wounds.
No details surrounding a possible motive have been released.

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