A Duson man suspected in three murders in April at a Lafayette apartment complex has been indicted by a Lafayette Parish grand jury.
Chad Michael Credeur, 42, was indicted Wednesday on three counts of first-degree murder, according to the District Attorney's Office of the 15th Judicial District Court in Lafayette.
Credeur is suspected in the April 11 deaths of Elizabeth Reames, 46, Brandon Touchet, 45, and Eric Green, 49, whose bodies were discovered the following day in Reames' apartment at 701 South College Road.
Green was an adjunct professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Touchet also was a resident of the apartment complex.
The three were found fatally shot around 5:26 p.m. April 12 after Touchet's family filed a missing person's report and requested a wellness check, police reported at the time.
The victims and Credeur, according to Lafayette Police, were friends. Their IDs and some personal items were found in Credeur's possession when he was arrested April 12 in Jefferson Davis Parish.
Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's deputies responded the morning of April 12 to a report of a white BMW parked in a private driveway in Iowa along Louisiana Highway 383. Credeur, with cuts and scratches on his face and neck, according to a police report, appeared impaired and disoriented.
He was arrested and in jail in Jefferson Davis Parish on charges of criminal trespass, drug possession and possession of a firearm in the presence of controlled dangerous substances when the bodies were found in Lafayette.
Previously, Credeur was indicted in July 2020 on a charge of attempted second-degree murder in connection with shooting of Cyrus Daniel Orgeron. The men, police reported, were involved in a verbal altercation on Lourdes Street in Lafayette and Credeur allegedly shot Orgeron in the stomach. He has not gone to trial on that charge.
Court records show Credeur has court dates set in December on unrelated 2018 charges, including second-degree battery, simple battery and simple robbery; simple battery and domestic abuse battery child endangerment; 2019 charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, meth, methadone and hydrocodone, and possession of Xanax, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.