An Orleans Parish jury found Jeremiah Williams guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of Frederick Magee Jr.

Friday's verdict is a unanimous jury finding on the three counts the district attorney listed. It is not the sentence. Nov. 6 is the date in that announcement. The 2024 police and television accounts describe the arrest warrant as a murder count. They do not list the obstruction count or the gun count.

The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office said Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, that an Orleans Parish jury on Friday, Oct. 23, unanimously found Jeremiah Williams guilty as charged of second-degree murder, obstruction of justice, and possession of a firearm or weapon by a convicted felon. The office identified the case as No. 566-612 and said it concerns the November 2024 killing of U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Frederick Magee Jr. It said the verdict followed a four-day trial in Section K of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court before Judge Marcus DeLarge, prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Abigail MacDonald, with Assistant District Attorney Adele Krieger as second chair. It said Williams was remanded after the verdict and that sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 6, 2026. A unanimous guilty verdict is the jury's finding on those counts. Nov. 6 is when a judge is set to impose the term.

The office, attributing the scene account to the New Orleans Police Department, said officers responded about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2024, to the 700 block of Tchoupitoulas Street and found Magee on the sidewalk outside a hotel with multiple gunshot wounds. It said emergency medical personnel responded and that he was pronounced dead at the scene. It said surveillance video showed the driver of a black SUV get out, approach Magee, and fire a rifle, keep firing after Magee fell, then return to the SUV and leave. It said investigators recovered 12 spent rifle casings. It said NOPD Homicide Detective Matthew Riffle led the investigation, using the video and cellphone data to follow the vehicle to the West Bank, and that investigators later found a burned SUV they believe was used in the shooting. It said the investigation identified Williams as the shooter. Those are the facts the office says the investigation established. The jury's finding is the Friday verdict.

The office said co-defendant Jerroy Holden pleaded guilty as charged to obstruction of justice on Oct. 16, 2026, before Williams's trial. It said an NOPD investigative report says Holden helped Williams burn the vehicle used in the killing. Holden's plea is his own case. It is not the jury's verdict on Williams. District Attorney Jason Williams said, in the announcement, "Sergeant Frederick Magee Jr. served his country, and he deserved to live his life free from this senseless violence," and that the family deserves to know his life mattered. The office said the trial team was made up of women. That is how the office described the lawyers and staff who tried the case. It is not a separate charge.

What police and the local stations reported in December 2024 is the arrest, not this verdict. The New Orleans Police Department said that on Dec. 12, 2024, its Violent Offender Warrant Squad and the U.S. Marshals arrested Jeremiah Williams, date of birth Dec. 25, 1999, at a residence in Jefferson Parish, and that he was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center as a fugitive. It said the warrant was for one count of second-degree murder. It said the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office on Nov. 5 identified the man who was killed as 24-year-old Frederick Magee and gave a preliminary cause of gunshot-related injuries. FOX 8 reported the shooting in the Warehouse District, in the 700 block of Tchoupitoulas Street, at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, the coroner's identification of Magee, and, in an update, that police had identified the suspect as Jeremiah Williams, 25. WDSU reported the same block, the same date, and the arrest of Jeremiah Williams, accused of killing Frederick Magee, 24, at a home in Jefferson Parish. FOX 8's age of 25 and the police department's Dec. 25, 1999 birth date are not the same age on Dec. 12, 2024. A person born on that date turned 25 on Dec. 25, 2024, after the arrest the department dated Dec. 12. WDSU did not print an age for Williams. The department's 2024 warrant was one murder count. Friday's verdict, as the district attorney listed it, was murder, obstruction, and the firearm count. FOX 8 and WDSU did not report a verdict. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.