A man accused of shooting and killing another man this month in the Warehouse District had outstanding domestic violence warrants, including one for him punching his girlfriend after she refused to buy him a PlayStation 5, according to police records.
According to police, security camera footage from the early morning hours of July 8 shows suspect Alfred Pennington IV, 38, walking with the alleged murder victim, Demond “Ankh” Foley, 36, at the intersection of Tchoupitoulas and Andrew Higgins Streets.
The two were talking near what police believe to be Pennington’s GMC Yukon Denali when police allege Pennington fired multiple shots at Foley and then pursued him on Andrew Higgins Boulevard, firing again, causing Foley to fall to the sidewalk.
New Orleans police responded to a report of a shooting at 1:27 a.m. and found Foley shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His obituary said he was a New Orleans native and the father of four children.
According to a police affidavit for the arrest warrant signed by Magistrate Judge Jonathan Friedman, Pennington allegedly drove west on Annunciation Street at a high rate of speed and abandoned the vehicle in the West Lake Forest neighborhood near Crowder Boulevard.
Pennington was booked into the Orleans Parish Jail on July 17 on one count of second-degree murder and two counts of domestic violence for which he had outstanding warrants.
The alleged crimes span a seven-year period and include an incident in August 2016 when Pennington allegedly assaulted a former partner in a Tulane-Graduate neighborhood after she went to buy school supplies for their son.
“It was getting worse,” she told police when questioned, saying she feared Pennington would kill her and that he had held her at gunpoint before.
In addition to the warrant, police allege Pennington assaulted another girlfriend in Littlewoods in January 2023, leaving her with a bruised eye socket and a bloody nose.
“Pennington became enraged when she refused to buy him a PlayStation 5 and an argument ensued,” police said in the warrant, signed by Magistrate Judge Juana Lombard on Jan. 12, 2023.
Pennington was being held Wednesday on $500,000 bail on the murder charge and $3,500 bail on the domestic violence charge.
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