21-year-old man confesses to stealing his dad’s gun and killing 5 people in Louisiana, say authorities
- Authorities say Dakota Theriot shot five people, including his parents and a woman believed to be his girlfriend, along with her brother and father
The 21-year-old man accused of killing five people, including his parents, in a shooting over the weekend before fleeing to his grandmother’s house has confessed, authorities in Louisiana said on Tuesday.
Dakota Theriot told authorities he used a gun he stole from his father, Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard said at a news conference.
He said while Theriot was cooperating and had provided authorities with a lot of information about what happened, they still have not determined exactly why the killings happened.
“We don’t really know what the motive is. We just know what he did,” Ard said.
Authorities have said Theriot shot and killed three people — Summer Ernest, 20, the woman believed to be his girlfriend; along with Ernest’s brother and father — in Livingston Parish, then drove her father’s pickup truck to Ascension Parish, where he shot his parents.
He then drove to his grandmother’s house in Warsaw, Virginia, where he was arrested on Sunday morning, Ard and Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said.