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Arrest made in shooting death of St. Charles Parish man

AMA, La. – On July 12, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office began investigating a shooting and subsequent car crash in Ama.

Officers were dispatched just before 9:00 p.m. after reports of gunshots being heard on Vidal St.


When they arrived, they found a silver Mercedes-Benz crashed on a grassy median between Vidal and Triche streets. Inside the vehicle, police found 36 year old, Darnell Ingram, deceased.

Detectives say Ingram was the victim of a shooting just before he crashed his vehicle.

On the morning of July 16, St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office Detectives arrested 29-year-old Bryant Woods, of Vidal Street..

Woods is being charged with one count of second-degree murder.

If you have any information on this shooting, you are asked to call St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office Detective Kevin Tennison at (985) 783-1135 or (985) 783-6807. You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously at (504) 822-1111.