By Michelle Hunter
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
GRETNA, La. — Two inmates at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center – including a man jailed on a murder charge – were arrested after an officer was injured during brawl with the pair, according to authorities.
Willie Slater, 37, of Gretna, and Lang Darby, 18, of Metairie, were booked Wednesday with battery of a police officer with injury, resisting arrest by injuring a police officer and simple criminal damage to property, jail records said.
The melee occurred Wednesday night about 8 p.m. at the correctional center in Gretna.
Slater has been held at the jail since Nov. 3 when he was booked with second-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 2 shooting death of Walter Wilson, 32. Darby was arrested Nov. 7 on an aggravated burglary charge, accused of beating a 59-year-old Kenner man with a wrench during a home break-in.
Slater and Darby were in the common room of a pod at the jail and refused to return to their cells, the arrest reports said. The two then began fighting with two corrections officers.
During the scuffle, one of the officers suffered a broken right hand. The other officer’s glasses were broken, but there was no word on whether he suffered any injuries.
Jail staff eventually took Slater and Darby into custody. Bond was set at $30,500 for the charges related to the fight.
Slater was being held at the Gretna jail Friday on a total bond of $1.19 million, including the charges stemming from the homicide case. Dabry was being held on a total bond of $60,500.
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