2 men guilty of murder face life sentences

After eight days of testimony and just under two hours of deliberation, a St. Landry Parish jury convicted both Jaden Ardoin, 21, of Krotz Springs and Jaimon Mason, 23, of Port Barre of the first-degree murder of Wade Vaughn-Smith, 20, and the attempted first-degree murder of James Preston Vaughn, 22. The Vaughn brothers were from Melville. According to a news release from St. Landry Parish Dis...

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