Sheriff: Man sought for questioning after 4 killed

NEW ORLEANS -- Investigators want to question a man who was living in a mobile home where two men and two women were killed last weekend and probably had been with the victims on their last night alive, the Calcasieu Parish sheriff said Wednesday.

Sheriff Tony Mancuso said Lee Roy Williams Jr., 52, owned an SUV that police have been looking for since the four bodies were found in the trailer Monday.

The dead have been identified as Crystal Dawn Fruge, 28, Jessica M. Eugene, 26, Terry Lynn Banks, 19, and Kendrick Warren Lavergne, 29. All were from Lake Charles.

"We want some answers. He was seen with them, eating with them. He lived at this home. Now he falls off the face of the earth," Mancuso said by telephone from Lake Charles.

He said Eugene was originally from Slidell and had lived in Fruge's trailer and that Fruge's mother had eaten dinner Friday night with her daughter and the other victims as well as with Williams.

Investigators believe all four were killed between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Mancuso added.

Mancuso said all four bodies showed signs of trauma. The victims were found after a woman who hadn't been able to get in touch with her daughter went to check on her. He said she woman opened the door, saw a body just inside, closed the door again and called 911.

"Do we know the causes of death? Yes," he said. But he declined to release specifics.

"We're not releasing the cause. We're receiving a lot of information from people," Mancuso said. "I think it's important that the information that we get is accurate. The only way to know it's accurate is if we withhold certain parts of the investigation."

The sheriff's office said Williams is about 6-foot-3 or 6-foot-4 and weighs 300 to 350 pounds, adding they were seeking a blue 2000 Ford Explorer XLT.

Mancuso said Williams has moved often, frequented homeless shelters and had convictions in North Carolina for involuntary manslaughter and breaking and entering, and in Mississippi for larceny and forgery.

The sheriff said his own office has an arrest warrant for Williams on unrelated drug charges.

He said Williams' last known addresses were in Meridian, Miss., and Chicago.