Other relatives wondered why their loved ones were selected, largely at random, by Dominique, who picked up men off the side of the road or other places, propositioning them himself or luring them into his car with the promise of drugs or sex with a fictitious woman, police have said.ĭominique raped the men if they allowed themselves to be tied up, then suffocated or strangled them before dumping their bodies, which were found in cane fields and near remote bayous across a swath that stretched from New Orleans to Iberia Parish. “I’ll miss him to the day I die,” he added, looking across the room to Dominique. “Any punishment given to this man will never compare to the horrible death he gave my brother.” “He didn’t deserve to die the way he did,” Cunningham said. “We will never get to speak to him and tell him how much we love him and missed him,” she said.Ĭhris Cunningham, brother of Kurt Cunningham, said his brother would never have a chance to have a child or grow old. Shaking so hard she could barely speak, Jodie LeBouef, Pellegrin’s sister, regretted a falling out with her brother five months before he was murdered. Relatives of the Terrebonne victims – Michael Barnett, Leon Lirette, August Watkins, Kurt Cunningham, Alonzo Hogan, Chris Deville, Wayne Smith and Nicholas Pellegrin – packed the courtroom Monday.Ī handful gave wrenching victim statements prior to the sentencing. The District Attorney's Office opted not to prosecute Dominique for the murder of Kenneth Randolph because it is believed to have occurred in another parish, though his body was found in Terrebonne, Rhodes said.Īsked if he wished to make a statement prior to sentencing, Dominique, a balding, stocky man not more than 5-feet-4 inches tall, declined with a soft “No sir.” Arrested in December of 2006, Dominique was originally indicted for nine killings in Terrebonne.
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