Staff Report
Phillip Lafleur was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Akeem Adiddias Ceasar in Eunice and 40 years in a manslaughter plea involving the death of his great uncle Dale Lafleur.
The sentencing was Tuesday before 27th Judicial Court District Judge Alonzo Harris in Opelousas, according to a clerk in the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Office.
In September, Lafleur, 23, of the 300 block of North 12th Street, Eunice, was indicted by a parish grand jury and accused of murdering the 68-year-old Dale Lafleur, who disappeared in July 2011 from his Bayou Road home in Port Barre.
At the time of the indictment, Phillip Lafleur was waiting trial on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 22-year-old Akeem Adiddias Ceasar.
Ceasar’s body was found Feb. 1, 2016, in a wooded area north of East Magnolia Avenue. He had last been seen Dec. 24, 2015.
Lafleur was indicted for second-degree murder and Candice Renee Vidrine, 21, was indicted for accessory after the fact to the second-degree murder of Ceasar.
The indictments in Ceasar’s death were returned in May 2016.